Pausanias’ book 2, conventionally labelled “Argolid” combines in fact two separate regions, the Argolid proper, consisting of its “capital” Argos and its dependent cities and villages, and a region which should have been labelled Corinthia, as in classical times as well as in Pausanias’ time it was an independent region, incorporating the most important Roman city in Greece. Both regions formed the heartland of the “kingdom of Agamemnon” in Homer, possibly the reason for Pausanias’ combination of these two in one book. In classical times the Argolid itself knew several independent city-states.