Leader: (2) Aristodemus.
Chief Action: (1) Siege of Mount Ithome.
Results: Messenians become tributary of Sparta and their land is, in part, confiscated.
SECOND MESSENIAN WAR.—645-628 B. C.
(1) Spartans vs. (2) Messenians.
Cause: Spartan oppression causes Messenian revolt.
Leaders: (1) Tyrtaeus (poet); (2) Aristomenes.
Chief Action: (1) Eira.
Results: Greater part of Messenians flee to Sicily. Those remaining become helots (Spartan serfs).
FIRST SACRED WAR.—600-590 B. C.