Literary and Epigraphic Evidence of Argos

Because of the lack of archaeological findings in Argos, there has not been much discovered by epigraphs. I could not find a single example. Most of our understood history of Argos has come from the writings of Pausanias, a writer who toured Greek towns and wrote about his travels around 200 A.D., Strabo, a geographer who encountered the area around the first century B.C., and Herodotus, the "father of history" who briefly mentions Argos only as a supporting character to the story of Athens and Greece. [11] Argos is also the setting of Aeschylus' Eumenides is briefly mentioned in other Greek plays, such as Sophocles' Three Theban Plays. [12]