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370 BC (search for this): entry aristomenes-bio-1
; it was not in his life that retribution was to come ; but while he was consulting the Delphic oracle, Damagetus, king of Ialysus in Rhodes, being there at the same time, was enjoined by the god "to marry the daughter of the best of the Greeks." Such a command, he thought, could have but one interpretation; so he took to wife the daughter of Aristomenes, who accompanied him to Rhodes, and there ended his days in peace. The Rhodians raised to him a splendid monument, and honoured him as a hero, and from him were descended the illustrious family of the Diagoridae. (Paus. 4.24; Pind. Ol. vii.; Müll. Dor. 1.7.11.) His bones were said to have been brought back to Messenia (Paus. 4.32); his name still lived in the hearts of his worshipping countrymen; and later legends told, when Messenia had once more regained her place among the nations (B. C. 370), how at Leuctra the apparition of Aristomenes had been seen, aiding the Theban host and scattering the bands of Sparta. (Paus. 4.32.) [E.E
685 BC (search for this): entry aristomenes-bio-1
e of Ithome and the end of the first Messenian war, when the spirit of Messenia, chafing under a degrading yoke (Plb. 4.32; Just. 3.5; Tyrt. apud Paus. 4.14), and eager for revolt, found a leader in Aristomenes of Andania, sprung from the royal line of Aepytus, and even referred by legendary tradition to a miraculous and superhuman origin. (Paus. 4.14.) Having gained promises of assistance from Argos, Arcadia, Sicyon, Elis, and Pisa (Paus. 4.15; Strab. viii. p.362), the here began the war, B. C. 685. The first battle at Derae, before the arrival of the allies on either side, was indecisive; but Aristomenes so distinguished himself there by his valour, that he was offered the throne, but refused it, and received the office of supreme commander. This was followed by a remarkable exploit. Entering Sparta by night, he affixed a shield to the temple of Athena of the Brazen House (*Xalki/oikos), with the inscription, "Dedicated by Aristomenes to the goddess from the Spartan spoils." The nex