 A decisive battle was fought with Tisamenus, son of Orestes, the chief ruler in the peninsula, who was defeated and slain.The Heracleidae, who thus became practically masters of the Peloponnese, proceeded to distribute its territory among themselves by lot.Argos fell to Temenus, Lacedaemon to Procles and Eurysthenes, the twin sons of Aristodemus; and Messene to Cresphontes.