Cresphontes

Wins Messene after drawing lots with Procles and Eurysthenes.

Genealogy

Aristomachus

Temenus

Merope

Places
  1. Messene
  2. Peloponnese
Events
  1. Temenus, Procles, Eurysthenes and Cresphontes draw lots for shares of the Peloponnese
  2. Cresphontes becomes ruler of Messene in the drawing of lots
  3. Cresphontes murdered with two of his sons
  4. Founders of Messene find a fox
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 8.4
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 8.5
  3. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 18.7
  4. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 19.1
  5. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 1.5
  6. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 3.3
  7. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 3.4
  8. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 3.5
  9. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 3.6
  10. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 3.7
  11. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 5.1
  12. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 16.1
  13. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 27.6
  14. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 30.1
  15. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 31.11
  16. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 5.6
  17. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 29.5
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