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	History of Ancient Argos
		The first king of Argos was Inachus, the son of Oceanus and Tethys and god of the river that was flowing in front of the walls of the city.
		Argos was the first city to learn the protogeometric style from Athens, developing later their own school of geometric pottery, equal to Athens.
		Argos was an ally of Corinth in the Corinthian war, 395 - 386 BC.
	www.sikyon.com /Argos/history_eg.html (2916 words)

	Argos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Argos (Greek: Άργος, Árgos) is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplio, which was its historic harbor, named for Nauplius.
		Argos, along with the neighboring acropoleis of Mycenae and Tiryns became very early settlements because of their commanding positions in the midst of the fertile plain of Argolid.
		The town of Argos is the seat of the province of the same name, one of the three subdivisions of the Argolis prefecture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Argos (441 words)

	(33) Argos, Argolis (Greece) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Argos, a city in the northern Peloponnesos, played an important role in early Greek legend and in the Classical period was famous for its sculptors.
		Argos may have issued coins from as early as the sixth century B.C., but it was not until after its expansion of c.
		The wolf is a frequent type on the smaller denominations of Argive coinage such as this obol, one of the smallest denominations in the collection (6 obols = 1 drachm).
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/033.html (159 words)

	Places to See Around Nafplion
		Founded by the Dorians, the city of Argos is in a fertile plain at the foot of Mount Chaon and is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Greece.
		Argos is the agricultural and commercial center of the prefecture, famous for its citrus orchards.
		Ancient Corinth was one of Greece's richest cities in it's heyday around the 6th century BC.due to it's position and control of the narrow isthmus which seperated the Peloponessos and the mainland and the two seas on each side of it.
	www.greecetravel.com /nafplio/nearby.html (1022 words)

	Argos
		Argos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnesus near Nafplio, which was its historic harbor, named for Nauplius.
		Argos is also a major general goods retailer with over 500 stores in the United Kingdom.
		Argos is famous for selling goods using a catalogue format, where customers place orders at a till in store for items selected from a catalogue.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/argos.html (285 words)

	Greece - Corinth - Tiryns - Argos
		From the higher seats of the theatre of Argos, which rise much steeper than those of Syracuse, there is a most enchanting prospect to the right, over a rich plain, covered, when we first saw it, with the brilliant green of young vines and tobacco plants, varied with the darker hue of plane-trees and cypresses.
		A careful examination of the scanty allusions to the state of Greece during the time of its supposed Slavisation, and the evidences obtained from the lives of the Greek saints who belong to this epoch, have proved to demonstration that the country was never wholly occupied by foreigners or deserted by its old population.
		The drive from Argos to Nauplia leads by Tiryns, then by a great marsh, which is most luxuriantly covered with green and with various flowers, and then along a good road all the way into the important and stirring town of Nauplia.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles19/greece-13.shtml (10142 words)

	Argos, city, ancient Greece. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It was occupied from the early Bronze Age and is mentioned in Homer’s Iliad as the kingdom of Diomed.
		Argos was the center of Argolis and in the 7th cent.
		Pyrrhus was killed in an attack on Argos in 272.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ar/ArgosGr.html (223 words)

	Argos, Greece - ReligionFacts.com
		Argos was an ancient Greek city in the department (nomos) of Argolis (or Argolid), a rich agricultural plain in the easternmost Peloponnesian peninsula.
		From about 1100 BCE, Argos was a base of Dorian operations in the Peloponnese; from the seventh century until the rise of the Spartans, it was the dominant city-state in all the Peloponnese.
		The modern city of Argos is a prosperous agricultural town based on the sale of its local produce, especially citrus fruits, and related food-processing industries.
	www.religionfacts.com /greek_religion/places/argos.htm (624 words)

	Archaeological Research Online Finally! The Birth of the ARGOS Project
		ARGOS eventually received support from the Greek National Documentation Center (EKT), which undertook funding applications to the European Union and the necessary leadership, and provided the physical home on its Hermes server.
		ARGOS was conceived in 1994 through agreements between the directors of the various archaeological libraries in Athens.
		This is an important aspect of ARGOS because of the increasing interest in interdisciplinary studies, for example, combining art and social sciences from several areas.
	www.infotoday.com /cilmag/nov00/roccos.htm (2743 words)

	Hellenic Book Service
		Greece's first capital after the war of independence 1821-1830 was at (Nauplion), a beautiful city on the eastern side of the Peloponnese.
		GREECE :THE PELOPONNESE by Dana FACAROS and Linda THEODOROU.
		Eyewitness: Athens and Mainland Greece by Marc Dubin (£15.99).
	www.hellenicbookservice.com /travel/central_greece.htm (2206 words)

	ARGOLIDA - location in (GTP) Greek Travel Pages
		a) Argos District, which is situated in the northwest and possesses the most mountainous regions as well as the largest part of the Argolic plain.
		km and its capital is Argos according to the 1991 census, the population of Argos is 22,289, while the overall population of Argos district is 45,342, 42.69 inhabitants per sp km.
		Argos ancient theater, built in the 4th century BC, it held 15,000 spectators on the seats hewn from the rock; there were marble places for honored persons
	www.gtp.gr /LocPage.asp?id=8952 (374 words)

	Argos - Greece - Rentals!
		However, Greecexplorer recommends the collaborating car rentals in Argos, cause if you wish to rent a car in Argos, you have to be very careful as to the terms under which the car rentals, and the bike rentals, deliver the vehicles.
		Also the traffic rules in Greece are not very headed to mainly by the tourists and the Greeks too, which makes it rather difficult to drive.
		Some of the material for wind surfing for rent in Argos Greece, is available at all beaches, except at the beach in Argos town, where it is forbidden to wind surf, due to the heavy marine traffic.
	www.greecexplorer.com /argos/rentals.php (396 words)

	Argolida Prefecture in Peloponnese, Greece. Argolida, Epidaurus, Argos, hotels in Peloponnese. Hotels in Greece.
		The Argolid was the heart of Greece from 1600 to 1100 BC under the Mycenaeans.
		Today the historic Peloponnesian city of Argos is the agricultural and commercial centre of the prefectur The city has retained some neoclassical buildings, the neoclassical market place and the army barracks datying from the time of Kapodistrias.
		Northwest of Argos, the citadel of Larissa stands on the crest of a low mountain, it is worth a visit - an aspallted road goes all the way up - to admire the Frankish and Venetian fortifications as well as the view, which is especiallly impressive at sunset, when the colours run riot.
	www.vacation-peloponnese.com /argolida (2363 words)

	Argos -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soon thereafter the 50 sons of Aegyptus arrived in Argos, and Danaus was forced to consent to their marriage with his daughters.
		The son of Atreus, who was the king of Mycenae in Greece, Agamemnon was probably a historical personage, a king who ruled either at Mycenae or at nearby Argos during the Trojan War.
		The greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece was Pindar from the city of Thebes.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9009386 (723 words)

	Greece - Mycenae And Tiryns
		When we first visited the place, it was in the after-noon of a splendid summer's day ; the fields were yellow and white with stubbles or with dust, and the deep grey shadow of a passing cloud was the only variety in the colour of the upper plain.
		I saw the valley of Argos again in spring, in our 'roaring moon of daffodil and crocus' ; it was the time of growing corn, of scarlet anemone and purple cistus, but there too of high winds and glancing shadows.
		That the general range of the civilisation was that of Africa is indicated by the frequent use of the palm (not then known in Greece) as a decoration, and by the very scanty clothing of the male figures, indicating that dress was not a necessity of climate.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles19/greece-15.shtml (6951 words)

	Argolidas Peloponnese Greece Mycenae Epidaurus Argos Peloponnese Greece
		Situated to the South-East of the prefecture of Corinth, Argolida is a picturesque and magical region of the Peloponnese.
		Argos, founded in 2000BC, is the oldest continuously inhabited town in all of Europe, and stands among groves of citrus and olives.
		The once historic city of Argos, is today, the agricultural and commercial centre of the prefecture.
	www.aroundgreece.com /argolidas-peloponnese-greece.html (782 words)

	Argos : Planning a Trip \| Frommers.com
		Argos is also served by frequent buses from Nafplion (about 30 minutes).
		Argos has two bus stations: the Athinon Station (buses to and from Athens), on Leoforos Vas.
		It's never easy to park in Argos, but you'll probably find a place on one of the side streets off the central square or by the ancient theater.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/argos/1631010002.html (431 words)

	Argos - Greece - Shops!
		Shopping in Argos Greece is very interesting in the city centre, where the small cobbled streets are lined with jewellery shops, and the numerous souvenir shops Argos has to offer.
		These shopping centers of Argos have a large variety of items that are traditional to the areas in and around the city.
		Therefore, the Argos greece shops are not only interesting to visit, due to their location, but also have a large variety of items, and traditional goods and specialities of Argos.
	www.greecexplorer.com /argos/shops.php (189 words)

	ARGOS - location in (GTP) Greek Travel Pages
		Argos is the most important agricultural, industrial and export center of the wider Argolis region, due to systematic cultivation and industries of processing, packaging and distribution of citrus products as well as those of building material, marble, distillery and winery, processing and standardization of olive oil, pump manufacturing and package machinery etc.
		Argos, commercial center on the region from ancient times, continues to be the area’s trade center even today.
		This text (extract) is cited March 2004 from the Municipality of Argos tourist pamphlet.
	www.gtp.gr /Locpage.asp?id=8969 (301 words)

	Argos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ar'gos, a town of Greece, in the northeast of the Peloponnesus, between the gulfs of Aegina and Nauplia, or Argos.
		The town and the surrounding territory of Argolis were famous from the legendary period of Greek history onward, the territory containing, besides Argos, Mycenae, where Agamemnon ruled, with a kind of sovereignty over all the Peloponnesus.
		The patron deity of Argos was Hera or Juno, in whose shrine stood a statue of the goddess in ivory and gold.
	www.factopia.com /practical-reference/argos.htm (120 words)

	Saint Peter of Argos
		Peter, Wonderworker, Bishop of Argos, was born in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, about 855 A.D. He was the third of five children - four sons and one daughter - of a well-to-do, well-educated, pious, Christian family.
		Saint Peter of Argos was profoundly admired, loved and respected not only by his own people but even by the enemies of his people.
		Saint Peter died at the age of 70 and was buried in Argos.
	www.atlgoc.org /stpetear.htm (762 words)

	Argos
		Founded by Phoroneus and named after his son, Argos is the second oldest city of Greece.
		Unlike Sparta, the culture of Argos survived after the coming of the Dorians.
		Though Argives were able warriors, defeating Sparta at Hysiae and in the battle of Champions, at the same time they cultivated the arts, producing masterpieces, reaching their highest point culturally, at the times of Ageladas and Polykleitos.
	www.sikyon.com /Argos/argos_eg.html (134 words)

	chronology of boys' clothing : ancient civilizations -- Greece Greek city states
		Argos was an inland city located near Cornith.
		Megara was famed in Greece for its textiles.
		The Spartans had emerged as the dominant power in Greece after the dfeat of the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC).
	histclo.hispeed.com /chron/ancient/gre/acg-city.html (1180 words)

	Tiryns, Greek Mythology Link.
		Having become men, Acrisius drove Proetus 1 from, as they say, Argos (for what happens in Tiryns is not very different from what takes place in Argos and Mycenae, these three cities being relatively close to each other, and their history being intertwined).
		Perseus 1, as it is told, did not have the nerve to claim the inheritance of the man he had killed, so he made an agreement with Megapenthes 2 (son of Proetus and Stheneboea), exchanging kingdoms with him.
		Proetus and Stheneboea had yet another son Lernus 1, who is the father of Naubolus 3, father of Clytoneus 1, father of Nauplius 2, said to be a descendant of Nauplius 1, father of Palamedes.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Tiryns.html (1038 words)

	BIBLICAL HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the story of Argos and Tyrins, the latter of which lies only 1.5 km from the shores of the Sea.
		The plain of Argos was a natural starting point of political and social developments.
		The name `Argos' is siad to have origined from Sophocles in his `Electra', 4.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /map_argos_mycenae.html (210 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Argos
		It was considered the oldest city of Greece and was once the head of the Doric League, and in its time one of the largest and most populous of the Greek cities.
		Argos was famous in Greek antiquity for the worship of Hera (Juno), and her great temple, the Heræum (fully excavated in 1831), was considered one of the most magnificent monuments of Greek architecture.
		In the fifth century, B.C., the city was also famous for its temple of Apollo, the chief Doric sanctuary, and as the seat of celebrated schools of sculpture and music, especially the flute.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01706a.htm (200 words)

	The Ancient Theatre of Argos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Most of the remains visible today belong to the Roman times when part of the orchestra was covered by a new scene complex with a proscenium decorated with niches and a row of marble seats was added for the officials as well as a cloth canopy (velum) to protect the audience from the sun.
		Its vast cavea was visible throughout the long occupation of Argos, being the main and most important witness of the city's history.
		The monument was built in the 3d century B.C., when Argos became the the host of the «Nemeia» and the «Heraia» During these festivals musical and theatrical contests were held which took place in the Theatre.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/211/21104n/e211dn04.html (551 words)

	general informations about ileia,arkadia,argolida,laconia,korinthia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was a town that took part to important battles of the Greek towns against the Persians, (Thermopiles, Salamina, Platees, Mikali).
		Ancient Korinthos, was one of the largest and important towns of Greece.
		On the eastern coast it is washed by the gulf of Argos and the Mirtoo sea.
	www.web-greece.gr /peloponese2.htm (1144 words)

	Greek Mythology: INACHUS / INAKHOS River God of Argos, Greece
		INAKHOS was a RIVER-GOD of Argos in the Peloponnesos, southern Greece.
		She [cow-formed Io] reached her father’s river and the banks where often she had played and, in the water, mirrored she saw her muzzle and her horns, and fled in terror from the self she saw.
		"[Kadmos to the Pleaid Elektra:] ‘There is a city of Argos, famous for horses, and Hera’s habitation, the midnipple of the island of Tantalides.
	www.theoi.com /Potamos/PotamosInakhos.html (1436 words)

	Eleni Vainas - Faces from The Markets at Argos & Napflion
		Argos is an open-air market town, traditionally set up on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the large central square across from the museum.
		The major olive seller at Argos grinned and, nodding assent when I lifted my camera, told me she expected to see me next summer with a copy of the picture I took of her.
		Quite near the Argos market are countless cafes located one right next to the other with tables and chairs spilling over sidewalks, but if you are planning an overnight trip to this region, it would probably be best to plan to stay in nearby Napflion or Tolo as there are few hotels.
	www.translatum.gr /poetry/society/vainas/faces.htm (1153 words)

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