Argos

Reading notes

• Agamemnon §303 Argos

  Argos, the Argolid kingdom and city, often standing with Mycenae for Agamemnon's realm.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.10 Argives

  Argos and the Argives, here standing for the Greeks who besieged Troy; the verse is Aeneas recalling his escape.

• Oedipus §467 daughters of Proetus

  The Proetides of Argos, driven mad and ranging the woods, here brought into Bacchus's worship.

• Oedipus §467 Argos

  The city of the Argolid, which came to worship Bacchus despite Juno's presence as his stepmother.

• The Phoenician Women §271 Argos

  The great city of the Argolid, which Polynices rouses with its allies to war.

• The Phoenician Women §446 Inachian wall

  Of Argos, named for its first king Inachus; here the besieging Argive host.

• Thyestes §101 noble Argos

  Argos, chief city of the Argolid and seat of the kingdom contested by the brothers.

• Thyestes §546 Cyclades

  The Aegean island-group, here shaken by storm.

• The Trojan Women §249 Argos

  A chief city of the Greeks in the Argolid, by extension the Greek homeland the captives dread.