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Argos

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Argos
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Individual
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AndromacheCharacter1 observation
·Hypothetical

Hector imagines Andromache enslaved and plying a loom in Argos.

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It may be that you will have to ply the loom in Argos at the bidding of a mistress
TydeusCharacter1 observation
·Reported

Diomed reports that his father Tydeus migrated to Argos.

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I am by lineage son to a noble sire, Tydeus, who lies buried at Thebes. For Portheus had three noble sons, two of whom, Agrius and Melas, abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon. The third was the knight Oeneus, my father’s father, and he was the most valiant of them all. Oeneus remained in his own country, but my father (as Jove and the other gods ordained it) migrated to Argos
HerculesCharacter1 observation
·Remembered

Jove recalls bringing Hercules back to Argos.

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but I rescued him, and notwithstanding all his mighty labours I brought him back again to Argos
EurystheusCharacter1 observation
·Remembered

In Agamemnon’s recollected story, Eurystheus is born in Achaean Argos.

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For Juno darted down from the high summit of Olympus, and went in haste to Achaean Argos where she knew that the noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus then was. She being with child and in her seventh month, Juno brought the child to birth though there was a month still wanting,
JunoDeity1 observation
·Remembered

In Agamemnon’s recollected story, Juno goes to Achaean Argos and brings Sthenelus’s child to birth there.

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For Juno darted down from the high summit of Olympus, and went in haste to Achaean Argos where she knew that the noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus then was.
wife of Sthenelus son of PerseusCharacter1 observation
·Remembered

In Agamemnon’s recollected story, the wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus is then in Achaean Argos.

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For Juno darted down from the high summit of Olympus, and went in haste to Achaean Argos where she knew that the noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus then was.

Claims

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·Reported

Juno names Argos among her three favourite cities.

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My own three favourite cities,’ answered Juno, ‘are Argos, Sparta, and Mycenae

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·Direct
my house at Argos
·Direct
men of Argos
·Hypothetical
go home to Argos
·Hypothetical
back to Argos
·Direct
bring her from Argos
·Reported
far from Argos
·Remembered
I brought him back again to Argos
·Reported
Achaean Argos
·Hypothetical
as your guide I would go with you even to Argos itself

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Book 1 · Passage 4

On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. ‘Old man,’ said he, ‘let me not find you tarrying about our ships, nor yet coming hereafter. Your sceptre of the god and your wreath shall profit you nothing. I will not free her. She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you.’