Argura

Argura, called Argissa (Ἄργισσα) in Homer's Iliad, was a town and polis in Pelasgiotis in ancient Thessaly, on the Peneus, and near Larissa [1]. The name of the town was also given as Argusa in some ancient sources [1]. 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 west of Larissa, which has a nearby tumulus [1]. Excavations of the site have yielded a walled enclosure of the 5th and 4th centuries BCE opus isodomum style, with square towers [1]. The ceramic material found covers from the seventh century BCE to the third century CE [1]. Dedications found attest to the cult of Apollo Pythius and of Artemis [1].