. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. and Hermione. Theformer boasted of aremote antiquity,Argos being re-garded as the mostancient city ofGreece, and theothers as hardly oflater date. My-cenae was the capitalin the heroic age;Argos held that postsubsequently to theDorian conquest,and ultimately de-. Coin of Argos. plain named after it, about3 miles from the sea and alittle W. of the chief citadel,^ Larissa(Map, 1), was built on an in-sulated conical hill, 900 feethigh, on the W. side of thetown. The second citadelsto
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. and Hermione. Theformer boasted of aremote antiquity,Argos being re-garded as the mostancient city ofGreece, and theothers as hardly oflater date. My-cenae was the capitalin the heroic age;Argos held that postsubsequently to theDorian conquest,and ultimately de-. Coin of Argos. plain named after it, about3 miles from the sea and alittle W. of the chief citadel,^ Larissa(Map, 1), was built on an in-sulated conical hill, 900 feethigh, on the W. side of thetown. The second citadelstood on a lesser heightnamed Aspis (Map, ?>\ in of the city, and whichwas connected with Larissa 5 The present castle of Argos is a building of comparatively modern times, butcontains some traces of Cyclopean masonry. Cpiap. XXIII. To^yxs. 465 the adjacent hillS; including the one named Aspis in the , onwhich the second citadel stood. The Agora (6) ^ stood in the centre ofthe town. The buildings in Argos were numerous : among them wemay specify the temple of Apollo Lyceus (7) which stood near the agora;those of Zeus Larissseus and of Athena which crowned the summit ofthe Acropolis ; two temples of Hera; the theatre (5) excavated out ofthe S. side of Larissa^ remains of which still exist; and the monumentof Pyrrhus in the agora. Outside the t
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