Argos

Reading notes

• The Heroides §14 Argos

  The Argive city, kingdom of Danaus and scene of the slaughter.

• The Festivals §5.14 Inachian shore

  Argos (named from its river Inachus), the Greek home the Argive settlers longed to return to in death.

• The Festivals §6.proem Sparta

  The Greek city (with Sparta and Mycenae) Juno set below Latium; the Inachian home of the exiles.

• Metamorphoses §1.10 Argos

  City and plain of the Argolid, Io's homeland, into which Juno looks down.

• Metamorphoses §3.57 the gates of Argos

  Argos, the city in the Peloponnese ruled by Acrisius.

• Metamorphoses §15.478 Abantean Argos

  The chief city of the Argolid, called Abantean after its early king Abas.

• The Cure for Love §5 Argos

  City in the Argolid, home of Aegisthus; emptied of war and lawsuits while its men were away at Troy.