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The Heraion of Argos (Greek: Ἡραῖον Ἄργους) is an ancient sanctuary in the Argolid, Greece, dedicated to Hera, whose epithet "Argive Hera" (Ἥρη Ἀργείη Here Argeie) appears in Homer's works.
The Heraion of Argos Ancient Peloponnese Ancient regions of Peloponnese (southern mainland Greece). There is evidence of continuous settlement in the area starting with a village about 7,000 years ago in the late Neolithic, located on the foot of Aspida hill.
The Heraion of Argos was a Pan-Hellenic sanctuary, and her office was that of great status not only in Argos but in all Greece. A sign of her prestige was the fact that the time period of the office of each Priestess was used as a time chronology in large parts of Greece. [1]
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In ancient Greek religion, Kanathos (Greek: Κάναθος) in the Argolid was the spring at Nauplia, [1] where Hera annually renewed her virginity.There, Pausanias noted, [2] was "a spring called Kanathos where, so say the Argives, Hera bathes every year and, by so doing, becomes a maiden; it is this story which is of the secrets connected with the rites which they perform to Hera."
A Heraion / h ə ˈ r eɪ ˌ ɒ n / or Heraeum / h ə ˈ r iː ə m / is a temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Hera Notable temples include: Heraion of Samos, the most important of the sanctuaries dedicated to Hera; Heraion of Argos, near Nafplion in Argolis; Heraion of Perachora (Hera Akraia and Hera Limenia), near Corinth; Temple of Hera ...
Argive history is somewhat sketchy for part of the next century due to unsettled conditions there — according to an Athenian court case of Pseudo-Demosthenes, the Argolic Gulf was full of pirates who sold their stolen goods in the agora at Argos with impunity [2]: 143 — but at some point before 272 B.C. the city was re-walled, as it had ...
Inachos, the supposed son of Oceanos and Tethys, is affirmed to have been the founder of this kingdom.He married his sister Melissa, by whom he had two sons, Phoroneus and Aegialeus: he is supposed to be the father of Io, and therefore the Greeks are sometimes called "Inachoi" after him (see also the names of the Greeks).