My only coin from Argos, where were get the name of the Argonauts: Argolis, Argos Æ Dichalkon. Circa 280270/60 BCE Head of Hera right, wearing stephane inscribed APΓE/Athena Promachos left. BCD Peloponnesos1100-4; 3.90g, 18mm 6h. Very Fine
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DonnaML, Thank you first for your resonant reality check about the genealogy. Given which, Yeah, Not Quite. The cultural legacy of the entire region inhabited a much narrower spectrum than that. Aggregately, you could see the Middle East, and most of the Mediterranean, at least from, say, the first millennium BCE into the middle of the first one ACE, as having been one of the most cosmopolitan on record. ...Yeah, a lot was happening, more simultaneously (and often enough synergetically) than in any neat succession.