Editing Messene (section)

===Public buildings and monuments===

[[File:Messene 02.jpg|thumb|View of the Odeon]]
[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] has left a description of the city,<ref>Pausanias, IV.3.1?33.</ref> its chief temples and statues, its springs, its market-place and gymnasium, the Asclepieion,<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/481140/The_Virtual_Reconstruction_of_the_Hellenistic_Asklepieion_of_Messene= Sideris A., Roussou M. and A. Gaitatzes, "The virtual reconstruction of the Hellenistic Asclepieion of Messene"], ''Imeros'' 4, 2004, pp. 208-216.</ref> its place of sacrifice, the tomb of the hero [[Aristomenes]] and the temple of [[Zeus]] Ithomatas on the summit of the acropolis with a statue by the famous Argive sculptor [[Ageladas]], originally made for the Messenian helots who had settled at [[Naupactus]] at the close of the third Messenian War.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

The other buildings which can be identified are the theatre, the stadium, the council chamber or Bouleuterion, and the ''propylaeum'' of the market, while on the shoulder of the mountain are the foundations of a small temple, probably that of [[Artemis Laphria]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}