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It is the largest city in Argolis and a major center in the same prefecture, having nearly twice the population of the prefectural capital, Nafplio. Since the 2011 local government reform it has been part of the municipality of Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. [3] The municipal unit has an area of 138.138 km 2. [4]
Argos Pelasgos or Argeos. Son of Zeus and Niobe, the daughter of Phoroneus. Argos named the kingdom after himself. Criasos or Pirasos or Peranthos. Son of Argos. Phorbas. Son of either Argos or Criasos. Triopas. Son of Phorbas. Jasos. According to different sources, he was son of either Phoroneus, Argos Pelasgos, Argos Panoptes, or Triopas ...
The Battle of Argos of 272 BC was fought between the forces of Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, and a spontaneous alliance between the city state of Argos, the Spartan king Areus I and the Macedonian king Antigonus Gonatas. The battle ended with the death of Pyrrhus and the surrender of his army.
[13] [14] The Argead dynasty claimed descent from the Temenids of Argos, in the Peloponnese, whose legendary ancestor was Temenus, the great-great-grandson of Heracles. [ 1 ] In the excavations of the royal palace at Aegae , Manolis Andronikos discovered in the "tholos" room (according to some scholars "tholos" was the throne room) a Greek ...
Ancient Argos (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "History of Argos, Peloponnese" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Battles involving ancient Argos (9 P) M. Mythology of Argos, Peloponnese (5 C, 65 P) Pages in category "Ancient Argos"
Amphilochian Argos (Ancient Greek: Ἄργος τὸ Ἀμφιλοχικόν, Latin: Argos Amphilochicum) was the chief town of ancient Amphilochia, situated at the eastern extremity of the Ambraciot Gulf, on the river Inachus. Its territory was called Argeia (Ἀργεία).
Items of note in the Argos Archaeological Museum include a Minoan style bridge-mouthed pot of sub-Mycenaean times, a reddish pot (460–450 BC) representing the fight of Theseus and the Minotaur, attended by Ariadne, a compass of the early geometric times, which is decorated with meanders and parallel lines, and a mosaic floor excavated from a house of the 5th century, in which symbols ...