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The Priestess of Hera at Argos was the High Priestess of the Goddess Hera, the protective city deity of Ancient Argos, on the Heraion of Argos in Argos. It was the highest religious office in Ancient Argos, and the person who held it enjoyed great prestige and played an official role.
Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, [5] [12] whose cult her father Inachus was supposed to have introduced to Argos. [5] Zeus noticed Io, a mortal woman, and lusted after her. In the version of the myth told in Prometheus Bound she initially rejected Zeus' advances, until her father threw her out of his house on the advice of ...
Chrysis (or Chryseis, Ancient Greek: Χρυσίς [1] or Χρυσηίς [2]) was the priestess of Hera at the ancient Greek sanctuary of Hera at Argos at the time of the Peloponesian War. She is known for having inadvertently caused a fire that led to the destruction of the temple.
Argos seemed to concentrate its changes to the lower terrace. [25] First, Argos connected the two stoas built in the 6th century with a staircase leading up to the Old temple Terrace. [25] There was also new construction to the east of the Heraion's site in the form of the establishment of the rectangular East Building. [25]
Criasus was said to have reigned for fifty four years. During his reign, Callithyia, daughter of Peiranthus, became the first priestess of Hera.According to Eusebius, Criasus reigned at the same time as Saphrus reigned as the fourteenth king of Assyria, and Orthopolis as the twelfth king of Sicyon.
In Greek mythology, Trochilus (Ancient Greek: Τρόχιλος Trókhilos) was a member of the Argive royal house as the son of Princess Callithyia (equated with Io "Callithyessa" in her role of the priestess of the Argive Hera). [1]
Peiras was credited with the founding of the first temple of Hera in Argolis and appointed his own daughter Callithyia as the priestess. Of the statues of Hera, which Pausanias saw in the Heraeum near Mycenae, the most ancient was one made of the wild pear-tree from the wood about Tiryns, which Peirasus was said to have dedicated for the sanctuary.
Plutarch (first century CE) is the earliest source for her name that is now available to us. Surely much intervening literature regarding Cydippe the priestess of Hera has been lost, since Plutarch was writing about 500 years after Herodotus first told the story. [2]