Argos Pelasgikon

Argos Pelasgikon (

And with them were ranged thirty hollow ships. Now all those again that inhabited Pelasgian Argos, and dwelt in

Argos, so named it^[6]. Strabo gives also the following post-classical meaning of the word 'argos': And in the more recent writers the plain, too, is called Argos, but not once in Homer. Yet they think that this is more especially a Macedonian or Thessalian usage.^[7]

Finally, although Homeric geography of Thessaly is not limited in this passage, the toponym "Thessalia" is absent in Homer.

Pheidippus and Antiphus appear as leaders from Dodecanesian insular kingdoms in the "Catalogue of Ships".^[9]

References

1. ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.681-85. online here
2. ^ Hellas was another name for Achaea Phthiotis, Thessaly.
3. ^ Greek text: Νῦν αὖ τοὺς ὅσσοι τὸ Πελασγικὸν Ἄργος ἔναιον, οἵ τ' Ἄλον οἵ τ' Ἀλόπην οἵ τε Τρηχῖνα νέμοντο,
   οἵ τ' εἶχον Φθίην ἠδ' Ἑλλάδα καλλιγύναικα, Μυρμιδόνες δὲ καλεῦντο καὶ Ἕλληνες καὶ Ἀχαιοί, τῶν αὖ πεντήκοντα νεῶν ἦν ἀρχὸς Ἀχιλλεύς.
4. ^ The Cambridge Ancient History: The Egyptian and Hittite empires to c. 1000 B.C By John Bagnell Bury, Stanley Arthur Cook, Frank Ezra Adcock, Martin Percival Charlesworth v. 2 - 1923 Page 481
5. ISBN 1-110-49230-8
   (2009)
6. ^ Geographica 9.5.5
7. ^ Geographica 8.6.9
8. ISBN 0-554-75060-0
   (2008)
9. ^ Iliad 2.679

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