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Lechaeum on the Corinthian Gulf, 33, 162
Lelantine plain in Chalcis, 89–90
Lemnos off the Hellespont, Lemnians, 77, 79,
176
Leobatas, ninth-century Agiad king, 70, 98,
100, 103
Leon, sixth-century Agiad king, 70, 115,
188
Leonidas (I) son of Anaxandridas, fifth-
century Agiad king, 20, 32–33, 51, 69–70,
73, 160, 162, 170
Leotychidas (I) son of Anaxilas, seventh-
century Eurypontid king, 70, 113, 174,
187
Leotychidas (II) son of Menares, fifth-
century Eurypontid king, 50, 69–70, 73,
187
Lesbos off the Anatolian coast, Lesbians, 14,
93, 98, 103, 181
Leuctron (modern Leontari) in Arcadia
north of Taygetus between Laconia and
Messenia, 75, 107, 109, 116, 186
Leuctron on the Messenian Gulf, 107–8
Libanius of Antioch, 5, 154
Libya, 103
Lichas the agathoergós (doer of good deeds),
115, 188
Livy (Titus Livius), xiii, 145
Locke, John, 37
Luther, Martin, 15–16
Lycia in Anatolia, Lycians, 81–82
Xanthos river, 82
Lycurgus, Spartan lawgiver, 3–6, 16, 43,
62–63, 98–105, 125–28, 135, 147, 154,
157, 161, 168, 171–72, 174, 183–85,
190–93
Lycurgus son of Lycophron, Athenian orator,
32
Lydia in Anatolia, Lydians, 95, 115, 182
Lyktos, Spartan colony in Crete, 78–79, 101,
176
Lysander son of Aristocleitus, móthax
(half-breed) and navarch, 131, 164, 166
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, 7, 45,
148, 167
Macedonia, Macedonians, 44, 143, 160, 166,
178
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1, 163
Madison, James, 8, 10, 28, 37
Magna Graecia, 103
Makaria, plain along Pamisos river in
southern Messenia, 75, 107–8, 113
Malea, Cape, southeastern tip of Laconia,
xviii, 75, 107, 110, 186
Mantineia in Arcadia, Mantineians, xviii, 52,
75, 130, 133, 171, 192
Medes, 144
Megalopolis in Arcadia, xviii, 107, 110, 186
Megara, Megarians, xvi, xviii, 38, 103
Melanesia, 26
Melos, Melians, 78–79, 176
Meltas, last Heraclid king of Argos, 115, 188
Menelaion, sanctuary near Sparta, 83
Mesopotamia, Mesopotamians, 81
Messene at Ithome in Messenia, xviii, 75, 89,
107, 110, 182–83
Messenia, Messenians, xviii, 11, 17–19, 24,
32, 42, 45, 65–69, 74–80, 89–122, 128,
149–52, 157, 166–67, 172–74, 179,
182–88
nation in bondage, 96, 119, 122, 151,
187
Pamisos river and valley in, 75–76, 80,
107–11, 119
Messenian Gulf, xviii, 74–76, 106–8, 113
Midas, king of Phrygia, 21
Miletus, Milesians, 106, 110, 186
Mill, John Stuart, 62, 172
Milton, John, 15
Minos, legendary king of Knossos in Crete,
101
Minotaur, 67
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat,
baron de La Brède et de, 1, 28, 36–37, 99,
152, 159
Moses, 17
Mothone near Cape Akritas in Messenia, 75,
107, 113, 187
Spartans settle Nauplian refugees in,
113, 187
Murdoch, Iris, 64
Mycenaean, 66–71, 77–79, 108, 111, 173,
176–77, 182
Myron of Priene, 154, 169
Mytilene on Lesbos, Mytileneans, 37Namier, Lewis, 36–39
Napoleon Bonaparte, 15
Nauplia in the Argolid, Nauplians, 75, 113,
187
Neda River, boundary between Messenia
and Arcadia, 75, 94–95, 107, 112–13,
182
Nedon River on western slopes of Taygetus,
74–75, 107–9, 113, 175
Neochori on western slopes of Taygetus,
108–9
Nicomedes son of Cleombrotus, regent for
Pleistarchus son of Leonidas, 132