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ARGOS (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
Gymnesii or Gymnetes (gumnesioi or gumnetes). A class of bond-slaves at Argos, who may be compared with the Helots at Sparta (Steph. Byz. s. v. Chios; Pollux, iii. 83). Their name shows that they attended their masters on military service in the capacity of light-armed troops, but no particulars are known about them.
This word primarily denotes the inhabitants of a district lying around some particular locality, but is generally used to describe a dependent population, living without the walls or in the country provinces of a dominant city, and, although personally free, deprived of the enjoyment of citizenship and the political rights conferred by it.
...From the account given above of the probable origin of the Perioeci of Sparta
we should naturally expect to find a subject population of this kind existing
in most Greek states, which are known to have experienced immigrations not resulting
in a total change of population, but in a combined residence of populations of
different nationality. Immigrations of this kind, which resulted in combined settlements,
were in a high degree the characteristic of Dorian movements; and accordingly
we should expect to find a Perioecic population as the basis of the early Dorian
states. This is in the main verified by facts. In Argos, for instance, we have
an undoubted Perioecic population; and although no true Perioeci can be identified
in cities like Sicyon and Corinth, or most of the later Dorian colonies, this
is easily explained by the fact that these states were created after the movement
of the great Dorian migration was over. The Perioeci of Argos were called Orneatae
from the town of Orneae, apparently the first or the most important town reduced
to this condition by the Argives (Herod. viii. 73). These Orneatae are called
summachoi of the Argives by Thucydides (v. 67, and Arnold's note), and with them
are classed the inhabitants of Cleonae; but that they were Perioeci appears from
the passage of Herodotus, in which he is evidently translating the less familiar
Argive term Orneatae into the more familiar Spartan one Perioeci, to show the
status of the Cynurian population he is describing. How large the Perioecic population
of Argolis was we do not know. A large part of it, Cynuria, was taken by the Spartans
(Herod. i. 82); and the two great Achaean townships, Mycenae and Tiryns, were
certainly not Perioecic towns at the time of the Persian war (Id. vii. 102, ix.
28). After their destruction by Argos about 468 B.C. (Diod. xi. 65), they may
possibly have been reduced to this condition.
This extract is from: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin). Cited May 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MYCENAE (Mycenean palace) ARGOLIS
At Thermopylae, Heraclidae and Mycenaeans, Mycenaeans in Pausanias' army, Io tethered to a tree in the grove of the, commanded by an oracle to choose a Pelopid for king, Agamemnon king of the, their muster for the Trojan war.
My own three favorite cities," answered Hera, "are Argos, Sparta, and Mycenae.
Agyieus (Aguieus), a surname of Apollo describing him as the protector of the streets and public places. As such he was worshipped at Acharnae (Paus. i. 31.3), Mycenae (ii. 19.7), and at Tegea. (viii. 53.1.) The origin of the worship of Apollo Agyieus in the last of these places is related by Pausanias. (Compare Hor. Carm. iv. 6. 28; Macrob. Sat. i. 9.)
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