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Argos seemed to concentrate its changes to the lower terrace. [25] First, Argos connected the two stoas built in the 6th century with a staircase leading up to the Old temple Terrace. [25] There was also new construction to the east of the Heraion's site in the form of the establishment of the rectangular East Building. [25]
The Priestess of Hera at Argos was the High Priestess of the Goddess Hera, the protective city deity of Ancient Argos, on the Heraion of Argos in Argos. It was the highest religious office in Ancient Argos, and the person who held it enjoyed great prestige and played an official role.
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In classical times, Argos was a powerful rival of Sparta for dominance over the Peloponnese, but was eventually shunned by other Greek city-states after remaining neutral during the Greco-Persian Wars. [11] The Heraion of Argos Ancient Peloponnese Ancient regions of Peloponnese (southern mainland Greece).
Hebe was particularly associated with the worship of her mother Hera in Argos and in the Heraion of Argos, one of the main centres of worship of Hera in Greece. It was said that Hebe, in a statue made of ivory and gold, was depicted standing beside a very large statue of Hera, which depicted the goddess seated holding a pomegranate and sceptre ...
The temples of Hera in the two main centers of her cult, the Heraion of Samos and the Heraion of Argos in the Argolis, were the very earliest monumental Greek temples constructed, in the 8th century BCE. [46] At Argos the Dorian "Heraion" was built on the hill of Prosymna near Mycenean hero-tombs. [46]
In ancient Greek religion, Kanathos (Greek: Κάναθος) in the Argolid was the spring at Nauplia, [1] where Hera annually renewed her virginity.There, Pausanias noted, [2] was "a spring called Kanathos where, so say the Argives, Hera bathes every year and, by so doing, becomes a maiden; it is this story which is of the secrets connected with the rites which they perform to Hera."
Heraklides of Pontus (died c. 310 BC) is cited as having mentioned the obols of Heraion and also gives the etymology of obolos (the name of the coin) from obelos (the word for "spit, spike, nail"). Similarly, the historian Ephorus in his equally lost work On Inventions (mid 4th century BC) is said to have mentioned the obols of Heraion.