Argolid

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.

Argos

Heraion

Lerna

Aegina

Mycene

Corinth

Acrocorinth

Epidauros

Tiryns

Nafplio

Asine

Troizen and Poros

Hysiai

Isthmos

Titane

Phlious

Nemea

Franchti

Hermione

Methana

Perachora

Apollo Maleatas

Mideia-Dendra

Sicyon