ARGOS, an ancient name of Peloponnesus; from Argos, one of the kings, (Homer, Strabo).
* See the article Thessaly.
ARGOS, the capital, and an inland town, of Argolis. It had different surnames; as Achaicum, from the country, or an ancient people, (Homer); Inachium, from the river Inachus, which runs by, (Pliny); &c. It had two citadels, (Livy); the one called Larissa, (Strabo); the other unnamed. At the siege of this city, Pyrrhus king of Epirus was killed by a tile thrown by an old woman. Argos was 26 stadia distant from Temenium, a maritime town, and 50 to the south of Mycenæ: Now Argo. E. Long. 23. 5. Lat. 37. 30.