Argos

a town of Greece, in the N. E. of the Peloponnesus, between ‘the guifs of Algina and Nauplia or Argos. This town and the surrounding territory of Argolis were famous from the legendary period of Greek history onward, the territory containing, besides Argos, Mycenw, where Agamemnon ruled, with a kind of sovereignty, over all the Peloponnesus.