- Information
- city in the Argolid
- Place of birth of
- 👤 Iphianassa (Argive) 👤 Iphinoe (Argive) 👤 Lysippe (Argive)
- Place of death of
- 👤 Electryon (s. of Perseus) 👤 Iphitos (Oichalian) 👤 Licymnios
- Founded by
- 👤 Proitos (Argive)
- Founded from
- 🌍 Argos (city)
- Fortified by
- 👥 the Cyclopes (wall-builders)
- Eponym
- 👤 Tiryns
- Ruled by
- 👤 Abas (Argive I) 👤 Amphitryon 👤 Argos (eponym) 👤 Electryon (s. of Perseus) 👤 Eurystheus 👤 Gelanor 👤 Iasos (Argive) 👤 Perseus (Argive) 👤 Phoroneus 👤 Proitos (Argive) 👤 Lynceus (Aigyptid) 👤 Megapenthes (Argive) 👤 Sthenelos (Mycenaean) 👤 Danaos 👤 Triopas (Argive) 👤 Phorbas (Argive) 👤 Crotopos 👤 Sthenelas
- Conquered by
- 👤 Proitos (Argive)
- Fortifications
- 🏛️ the Walls of Tiryns
- Relics preserved on site
- 🏛️ the Walls of Tiryns 🏛️ the House of Proitos (Tiryns) 🏺 the Statue of Hera Argolis
- Encompases
- 🏛️ the Walls of Tiryns 🏛️ the House of Proitos (Tiryns)
- Related Entities
- 👤 Abas (Argive I) 👤 Alcmene 👤 Amphitryon 👤 Anteia 👤 Apollo 👤 Argos (eponym) 👤 Bias (Argive) 👤 Ceyx (Thessalian) 👤 Creon (Theban) 👤 Cteatos 👥 the Cyclopes (wall-builders) 👤 Electryon (s. of Perseus) 👤 Eurystheus 👤 Eurytos (s. of Molione) 👤 Hera 👤 Zeus 👤 Gelanor 👤 Geryon 👤 Heracles 👤 Iasos (Argive) 👤 Iobates 👤 Iphianassa (Argive) 👤 Iphinoe (Argive) 👤 Iphitos (Oichalian) 🌍 Epidauros (Argolid) 👤 Peiras (Argive) 👤 Perseus (Argive) 👤 Phoroneus 👤 Proitos (Argive) 👤 Laomedon (Trojan) 👤 Licymnios 👤 Lynceus (Aigyptid) 👤 Lysippe (Argive) 👤 Megapenthes (Argive) 👤 Melampous 👤 Mideia (Phrygian) 👤 Sthenelos (Mycenaean) 👤 Telamon (Salamian) 👤 Tlepolemos (Rhodian) 👥 the Argos Contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Cattle of Electryon 👥 the Cattle of Geryon 🌍 River Oceanos (unlocatable) 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Sicyon (Argolid) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Lycia (SW Asia Minor) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Rhodes (island) 🌍 Lerna (Argolid) 🌍 Tiryns (Argolid) 🌍 Mideia (Argolid) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Erytheia (unlocatable) 🌍 Troizen (Argolid) 🌍 Trachis (Thessaly) 🌍 Hermion (Argolid) 🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis) 🌍 Aigina (island) 👤 Danaos 🏛️ the Walls of Tiryns 🌍 Asine (Argolid) 🌍 Eion (Argolid) 🌍 Mases (Argolid) 🌍 Pheneos (Arcadia) 👤 Triopas (Argive) 👤 Phorbas (Argive) 🏛️ the Walls of Mycenae 👤 Crotopos 👤 Sthenelas 👤 Tiryns 👥 the Dryopes 👥 the Daughters of Proitos 🌍 the Sanctuary of Argive Hera near Mycenae (Argolid) 🏛️ the House of Proitos (Tiryns) 🏺 the Statue of Hera Argolis 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi 🌍 Lousoi (Arcadia) 👤 Eurydice (Theban) 👤 Doryclos (Tirynthian) 👤 Haliacmon (Tirynian) 🏛️ the Temple of Argive Hera (Argolid)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.4 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.6 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.2.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.2.2 📖 Pausanias 1.32.6 📖 Pausanias 9.11.1 📖 Pausanias 2.25.8 📖 Pausanias 2.17.5 📖 Pausanias 5.2.2 📖 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 77-93 📖 Euripides, Alcestis 476-506 📖 Euripides, Alcestis 805-860 📖 Homer, Iliad 2.559-2.568 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 77 Most 📖 Pausanias 4.34.9-4.34.11 📖 Pausanias 8.14.1-8.14.3 📖 Pausanias 2.16.1-2.16.2 📖 Pausanias 2.16.3-2.16.4 📖 Pausanias 10.13.7-10.13.8 📖 Pausanias 9.36.4-9.36.5 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.12-2.5.1 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 287-305 📖 Unplaced Epic fr. 1 West 📖 Bacchylides, Odes 11 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 136-169 📖 Pindar, Olympian 7 27-53 📖 Pindar, Olympian 10 24-59 📖 Pindar, Olympian 10 60-77 📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 18 📖 Pindar, Isthmian 6 19-56 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 5.392 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.104-6.128 📖 Strabo 8.6.11 📖 Strabo 14.2.6-14.2.11
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Library Homer, Iliad Hesiod, Theogony Pausanias Euripides, Alcestis Hesiod, Shield of Heracles Hesiod, Ehoiai Strabo Unplaced Epic Bacchylides, Odes Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis Pindar, Olympian 7 Pindar, Olympian 10 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers Pindar, Isthmian 6 D-Scholia, Iliad Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Relevant to local traditions reported from of
- 🌍 Asine (Messenia)