Argos Timeline

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1400 BCE - 1300 BCE

Mycenaean fortifications, palaces and tombs constructed at Argos.
1200 BCE - 1100 BCE

Argos takes over from Mycenae as most important regional power in the Argolid.
700 BCE - 600 BCE

King Phiedon leads Argos to its greatest expansion.
c. 700 BCE

Sparta, Argos and Paros hold the first documented musical competitions in Greece.
c. 660 BCE

Pheidon is tyrant in Argos.
c. 580 BCE

The kouroi of Argos, thought to represent Cleobis & Biton, are sculpted.
c. 545 BCE

Sparta takes control of Thyrea from Argos.
494 BCE - 493 BCE

Spartan forces under Cleomenes I attack the city of Argos.
494 BCE - 493 BCE

Telesilla of Argos defends her city against the Spartan forces with an army of women.
c. 468 BCE

Tiryns is destroyed by the Argeians.
451 BCE

Sparta and Argos sign a peace treaty which endures for the next 30 years.
c. 430 BCE - c. 420 BCE

Sanctuary of Aphrodite constructed at Argos.
418 BCE

Sparta, led by Agis II, defeats Argos and her allies at the battle of Mantinaea.
415 BCE - 330 BCE

Nemean Games relocated to Argos.
c. 400 BCE

The large theatre is constructed at Argos.
395 BCE - 386 BCE

The Corinthian Wars between Sparta and an alliance of Athens, Corinth, Argos, Boeotia and Thebes.
330 BCE

Athletic Games return from Argos to Nemea.
272 BCE

Death of Pyrrhus of Epirus in a street battle in Argos.
269 BCE

Nemean Games definitively moved to Argos.
267 CE

The Goths sack Athens, Corinth, Sparta, and Argos.
395 CE

Argos is definitively destroyed by the Visigoth invasion.