Stretching from Corinth along the coast opposite Attica, we behold the ancient Argolis.

Its three principal cities were Argos, Mycenae, and Epidaurus.

Mycenae, at the time of the Trojan war, was the most powerful of the states of Greece; and Argos, next to Sicyori, was reputed the most ancient.

Argolis suffered from the Dorian revolution, and shortly afterward the regal power, gradually diminishing, lapsed into republicanism [108].

Argolis contained various independent states--one to every principal city.
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