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The middle of the 5th century B.C.E. yielded many changes for Argos and its territory. While the Heraion at Argos functioned primarily as a shared worship and meeting space for communities nearby in the Argive Plain, the Argive quest for expansion and power in the middle of this century altered the structure of the Heraion. [29]
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).
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]
Argos has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csa). It is one of the hottest places in Greece during summer. Argos has generally cold winters, although due to the local climate, some winter months may have little rainfall. The weather of Argos includes an abundant amount of sunny days throughout the year, even in the winter.
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Though the greatest and earliest free-standing temple to Hera was the Heraion of Samos, in the Greek mainland Hera was especially worshipped as "Argive Hera" (Hera Argeia) at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of Argos and Mycenae, [75] [76] where the festivals in her honor called Heraia were celebrated.
Traces of Venetian presence in Argos and its region, Proceedings of the International Scientific Meeting (Argos, 11 October 2008)] (in Greek). Athens and Venice: Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini di Venezia. pp. 19– 38. ISBN 978-960-7743-51-0. Archived from the original on 30 May 2011. Longnon, Jean (1969) [1962].
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 ...