Region: Southern Europe · Coordinates: 37.631, 22.720 · 23 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| 494 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Cleomenes deceives the Argives, kills many of them, and burns the Argive sacred grove |
| 471 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Staying in Argos after ostracism, he is accused over the Pausanias affair |
| 421 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Corinth visits Argos and proposes an anti-Spartan alliance, and Argos elects a committee of twelve |
| 420 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | He allies Argos, Mantinea and Elis with Athens |
| 418 BC | Diodorus Siculus, Library of History | Alcibiades came to Argos and held talks with the democratic faction. |
| 418 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Agis descends by a rough road into the plain of Argos and plunders Saminthus |
| 418 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | With the Argives surrounded, Agis accepts a four-month truce and withdraws, drawing his soldiers' condemnation |
| 418 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | At Tegea, Sparta offers peace to Argos and soon concludes a 50-year alliance |
| 418 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Sparta and Argos overthrow Argos' democracy and set up a pro-Spartan oligarchy |
| 417 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | The Argive people attack the oligarchs during the Spartan festival of the Gymnopaedia and win |
| 417 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | The Argives begin building long walls to the sea with the help of Athenian masons and carpenters |
| 391 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Agesilaus invades Argos, plunders its entire territory, and marches on to Corinth. |
| 388 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Agesipolis enters Nemea from Phlius and invades the Argive territory, and there were an earthquake and lightning. |
| 272 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | He leads his army to Argos |
| 272 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | In the dead of night the Gauls enter Argos through a gate opened by Aristeas |
| 272 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Pyrrhus is struck by a roof tile during street fighting in Argos and killed |
| 225 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Achaean representatives come again to the Argos conference and Cleomenes comes down from Tegea |
| 225 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Cleomenes takes control of Argos |
| 224 BC | Polybius, Histories | Achaea takes Argos and Cleomenes returns to Sparta |
| 222 BC | Polybius, Histories | Antigonus winters at Argos and in spring Cleomenes invades the Argolid |
| 209 BC | Polybius, Histories | Philip presides over the Nemean Games at Argos |
| 195 BC | Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) | Quinctius meets 10,000 Achaean infantry near Cleonae and goes down to the plain of Argos |
| 195 BC | Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) | After granting peace to Nabis and sending home the forces of Eumenes and Rhodes, Quinctius goes to Argos, where everyone rejoices |