Argos

She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch;

Atreus, when he died, left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes in his turn left it to be borne by Agamemnon, that he might be lord of all Argos and of the isles.

lead the Argives on to battle, and leave this handful of men to rot, who scheme, and scheme in vain, to get back to Argos ere they have learned whether Zeus be true or a liar.

And Themistocles rewarded him by a present of money (for there came to him afterwards money from Athens, sent by his friends, and from Argos that which had been secretly laid up there):

(he happened to have been ostracised, and though he had a residence at Argos, used to travel about to the rest of the Peloponnese,) they sent with the Lacedaemonians, who were very ready to join in the pursuit, certain men who were told to bring him wherever they might fall in with him.

The Corinthians, having heard long before from Argos that the armament of the Athenians was coming, went with succours to the Isthmus, all but those who lived above it:

Sing the suitors some one of these, and let them drink their wine in silence, but cease this sad tale, for it breaks my sorrowful heart, and reminds me of my lost husband for whom I have grief [ penthos] ever without ceasing, and whose name [ kleos] was great over all Hellas and middle Argos.

Four days later Diomedes and his men stationed their ships in Argos, but I held on for Pylos, and the wind never fell light from the day when heaven first made it fair for me.

but we were over there, fighting hard [ athlos] at Troy, and Aigisthos who was taking his ease quietly in the heart of Argos, cajoled Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra with incessant flattery.

The Phoenicians came to Argos, and set out their cargo.

On the fifth or sixth day after their arrival, when their wares were almost all sold, many women came to the shore and among them especially the daughter of the king, whose name was Io (according to Persians and Greeks alike), the daughter of Inachus.

Then the two Argives, believing themselves victors, ran to Argos;

They saw, however, that those who were in power were ruling like tyrants, and perceived that their state was being put out of existence, inasmuch as boundary stones had been removed and their fatherland was called Argos instead of Corinth;

After this, desiring to fortify a garrison post at the entrance to the Argive country which leads past Mount Celusa, he offered sacrifice;

The Lacedaemonians on their side, considering that the Argives were enjoying the fruits of their lands at home and taking pleasure in the war, made an expedition against them.

And accordingly neither tragic nor comic actors, nor producers of unmixed laughter through mimes, nor dancers nor chorus-men — save those of the sacred choruses, but not those singing or dancing the sufferings of Niobe or Thyestes — nor lyre-singers nor flute-players contending for victory in theatres, even if certain of the famous cities will on these accounts be ill-disposed toward us, Smyrna an …

It is no marvel, then, that I have so greatly loved such a fatherland that I would choose neither Athens nor Argos nor Lacedaemon — which are the first and most famous of the Greek cities — to be my fatherland in preference to this;

And, I think, what happened in the case of Cassandra at Argos, and to Agamemnon himself, made it plain that Chryseis had sense in rescuing herself from these evils.

Before the royal palace at Argos.

This city of Argos has decreed that no man give us shelter in home or hearth, or speak to matricides like us;

Here in Pelasgian Argos.

Now, however, I shall begin with the time when the Lacedaemonians conquered the cities of Achaea and divided their territory with the Argives and the Messenians;

and Argos, Agamemnon, who was possessed, not of one or two of the virtues merely, but of all which anyone can name— and these, not in moderate, but in surpassing degree.

on the contrary, having learned from the actual course of events that while according to law states and territories are deemed to belong to those who have duly and lawfully acquired them, in fact, however, they fall into the hands of those who are most practised in the art of warfare and are able to conquer their enemies in battle—thinking upon these things, they neglected agriculture and the arts …

Is not a "Bald Zeus" honoured in Argos, and another "Avenger" in Cyprus?

In the temple of Athena in Larissa, on the acropolis, is the tomb of Acrisius;

This fire burned down the temple in Argos, together with its priestess Chrysis;

there is none that will prefer thy feeble arm to the might of Eurystheus.

for ne’er will she for fear of Argos drive the children of Heracles from her land.

but forbear to act now, as is your Athenian way, and take the weaker side, when it is in thy power to choose the stronger as thy friends.

Agamemnon:

Go to Argos, and take care of your unwedded daughters.

I was awaiting your daughter’s arrival at the camp in Argos.

The famous Argos I claim as my native land.

I dreamed that I had left this land to live in Argos, and to sleep in the midst of the maidens’ rooms;

For I have had no one to go back to Argos with that message, who, being saved, would send my letter to one of my friends.

Go to Argos, and invoke the waters of Lerna.

How did you persuade an army to follow you here?

So Polyneices went to Argos and married into the family of Adrastus, and having collected a numerous force of Argives is leading them here;

Where is your Argos now?

O Argos, home of steeds, my native land!

This prayer I make, when I behold these aged dames, who, leaving their homes in Argos, now throw themselves with suppliant branches at my knees in their awful trouble;

how little did I ever dream that such would be your marriage, a captive, and of Argos too!

Lose no further time in watching for a favoring breeze to fill your sails, doomed as you are to carry from this land one of the three avenging spirits.

Base you are, and basely shall you be buried, in the dead of night when day is done, you captain of that army of Danaids, who think so proudly of your fortune!

” Such anciently was the power of the Inachidae established at Argos in Greece.

This was a received opinion in ancient times, as we find from the language of Aeschylus, in whose Tragedy of the Suppliants, the King of Argos, addressing a number of the daughters of Danaus, on their coming from Egypt, says, “If the sons of Egypt exercise controul over you, maintaining that they are authorised to do so by the law of the state, as being the nearest allied by blood, who can resist them?

and at Argos he won glory in a contest of men, and as a boy at Athens, And at Marathon, when he was barred from competing with the beardless youths, how he endured the contest for silver cups among the older men!

and the prizes of the bronze shield in Argos and the works of art in Arcadia and Thebes are familiar with him, and the duly ordered contests of the Boeotians, and Pellana and Aegina, where he was six times victor.

Locrus gave him a city and a people to govern, and strangers came to him from Argos and Thebes, from Arcadia and Pisa, But among the settlers he chiefly honored the son of Actor and Aegina, Menoetius, whose son went with the Atreidae to the plain of Teuthras, and stood alone beside Achilles, when Telephus turned to flight the mighty Danaans, and attacked their ships beside the sea, to reveal to a …

But he, as the widespread rumor says among us, has gone to the valley of Argos as an exile, and is taking to himself a new marriage connection, and warriors for his friends, intending that Argos soon get hold of the Cadmean land, or send its praises to the sky.

Theseus:

Theseus:

Again, Argos calls her own peace traditional, but forbids the other Greeks to secure a traditional peace for themselves:

"Callithoe, key-bearer of the Olympian queen, Argive Hera, who first adorned with fillets and tassels the long column round the queen.

" And a second kind of kingship, after the pure rational and divine administration, is that which uses for kingship the spirited part of the soul alone — the kind by which Heracles reigned over Argos and Alexander over the Macedonians.

More than this, when he was brought to Argos, wounded, he gave to Strammenus, the Argive proxenos of the Heracleotes, the property which was brought in with him.

No sooner had he set out, and was sailing around the Argolic gulf, than his ship was captured by pirate vessels and his goods taken to Argos, while he himself was shot down by an arrow, and met his death.

They, being the immediate neighbors of the Lacedaemonians and seeing them masters of land and sea, did not hesitate or fear to show their goodwill to you, but actually carried a decree that the envoys, who, we are told, had come from Sparta to claim the persons of some of your refugees, should be denounced as enemies unless they took their departure before the setting of the sun.

Today, on the same assumption, he is doing the Messenians and the Argives a good turn.

On the other hand, he learns that the ancestors of these Thebans and Argives either fought for the barbarians or did not fight against them.

And it was natural that he should form this opinion of you and the contrary opinion of the Argives and Thebans, because he not merely looks to the present, but also draws a lesson from the past.

Yea, and I find him myself the best of hosts whene’er to Argos’ thirsty land I come.