Mount Ithome (Greek: Ἰθώμη) is a mountain in Messenia, Greece. The Greek alphabet (Ελληνικό αλφάβητο is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early Messenia or Messinia (Μεσσηνία is a prefecture in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία As the most defensible point in the territory, it was the center of Messenian resistance during the Second Messenian War in the 6th century BC. The 6th century BC started the first day of 600 BC and ended the last day of 501 BC. Moreover, Ithome was selected as the site for the city of Messene when it was rebuilt by Epaminondas in 369 BC. Messene was also the name of a Greek colony in Sicily, initially founded as Zancle and nowadays known as Messina. Epaminondas ( Greek:) (ca 418 BC&ndash362 BC was a Theban General and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek Events By place Greece After driving off the Spartan army that has threatened Mantinea, Epaminondas of Thebes Ithome was also the center of the Helot revolt in 463 BC. The helots (in Classical Greek / Heílôtes) were an unfree population group that formed the Events By Place Greece In Athens, the democratic statesman Ephialtes and the young Pericles attempt to get the oligarchic