Argos Timeline

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Ancient Argos, located in the Peloponnese in Greece, was a major Mycenaean settlement in the Late Bronze Age (1700-1100 BCE) and remained important throughout the Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman periods until its destruction by the Visigoths in 395 CE. The site's best-preserved example of ancient architecture is the theatre, once the largest in Greece, and the remains of the 2nd-century CE Roman baths.

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1400 BCE - 1300 BCE
Mycenaean fortifications, palaces and tombs constructed at Argos.
1200 BCE - 1100 BCE
Argos takes over from Mycenae as most important regional power in the Argolid.
700 BCE - 600 BCE
King Phiedon leads Argos to its greatest expansion.
c. 700 BCE
Sparta, Argos and Paros hold the first documented musical competitions in Greece.
c. 660 BCE
Pheidon is tyrant in Argos.
c. 580 BCE
The kouroi of Argos, thought to represent Cleobis & Biton, are sculpted.
c. 545 BCE
Sparta takes control of Thyrea from Argos.
494 BCE - 493 BCE
Spartan forces under Cleomenes I attack the city of Argos.
494 BCE - 493 BCE
Telesilla of Argos defends her city against the Spartan forces with an army of women.
c. 468 BCE
Tiryns is destroyed by the Argeians.
451 BCE
Sparta and Argos sign a peace treaty which endures for the next 30 years.
c. 430 BCE - c. 420 BCE
Sanctuary of Aphrodite constructed at Argos.
418 BCE
Sparta, led by Agis II, defeats Argos and her allies at the battle of Mantinaea.
415 BCE - 330 BCE
Nemean Games relocated to Argos.
c. 400 BCE
The large theatre is constructed at Argos.
395 BCE - 386 BCE
The Corinthian Wars between Sparta and an alliance of Athens, Corinth, Argos, Boeotia and Thebes.
330 BCE
Athletic Games return from Argos to Nemea.
272 BCE
Death of Pyrrhus of Epirus in a street battle in Argos.
269 BCE
Nemean Games definitively moved to Argos.
267 CE
The Goths sack Athens, Corinth, Sparta, and Argos.
395 CE
Argos is definitively destroyed by the Visigoth invasion.

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