argos military Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/argos-military Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:09:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Argos in History & Today http://toursmaps.com/argos-in-history-today.html http://toursmaps.com/argos-in-history-today.html#respond Tue, 12 Dec 2017 22:36:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245783 Argos played a key role in Greek history. The most powerful city in the Argolid, its location between Corinth and Sparta meant that it was constantly embroiled in war. Its historians knew of a semi-mythical king, Pheidon, credited with introducing coinage, weights and measures into Greece, but when or whether he lived remains unclear. He may have fought at the Battle of Hysiae against the Spartans in the southwest Argolid around 668 bc, just one in a series of increasingly brutal encounters between the two states. Perhaps the most savage was the Battle of Sepeia in 494 bc, when the

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