in Ancient Geography, a town of Argolis, in Peloponnesus. The kingdom of the Argives was divided into two portions by Acrisius and his brother Proetus. Argos and Mycenae were their capitals. These, as belonging to the same family, and distant only about 50 stadia or six miles and a quarter from each other, had one tutelary deity, Juno, and were jointly proprietors of her temple, the Heraeum, which was near Mycenae. It was here that Agamemnon reigned. He enlarged his dominions by his valour and good fortune, and possessed, besides Mycenae, the region about Corinth and Sicyon, and that called afterwards Achaea. On his return from Troy, he was slain with his companions at a banquet. Mycenae then declined: and under the Heraclidae was made subject to Argos. (See ARGOS and ARGAEA.) The Mycenaeans sending 80 men, partook with the Lacedemonians in the glory acquired at Thermopylae. The jealousy of the Argives produced the destruction of their city, which was abandoned after a siege, and laid waste in the first year of the 78th Olympiad, or 466 years before Christ. Some part of the wall remained in the second century, with a gate on which were lions, a fountain, the subterraneous edifices where Atreus and his sons had deposited their treasures, and, among other sepulchral monuments, one of Agamemnon, and one of his fellow soldiers and sufferers.