  Shown within Greece | |
| Location | Gremnos Magoula, near Larissa |
|---|---|
| Region | Pelasgiotis |
| Coordinates | 39°39′35″N 22°20′28″E / 39.65986°N 22.34118°E |
| Type | Settlement |
| History | |
| Periods | Archaic Greece – Roman Greece |
Argura (Ancient Greek: Ἄργουρα),[1][2] called Argissa (Ἄργισσα) in Homer's Iliad,[3] was a town and polis (city-state)[4] in Pelasgiotis in ancient Thessaly, on the Peneus, and near Larissa. The name of the town was also given as Argusa (Ἆργουσσα) in some ancient sources.[5] The distance between this place and Larissa is so small as to explain the remark of the Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, that the Argissa of Homer was the same as Larissa.[6] The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites identify the site of Agura with a place called Gremnos Magoula, approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of Larissa, which has a nearby tumulus.[7][8]
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. p.440. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.738.
- ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thessaly and Adjacent Regions". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 691–692. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ "Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire". Archived from the original on 2018-08-28. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
- ^ Schol. in Apoll. Rhod. 1.40.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Stillwell, Richard; MacDonald, William L.; McAllister, Marian Holland, eds. (1976). "Argura". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press.