Recherches archéologiques récentes à l’Héraion d’Argos

Dance in Attic and Argive Geometric Pottery: Figurative Imagery and Ritual Contexts

“…T 2545). This distribution of the finds demonstrates that these images of dance circulated within the polis of Argos: they We should begin from the analysis of three fragments found in the Heraion of Argos, the famous extra-urban sanctuary that constitutes a symbolic projection of the city in its territory by signalling its control of the Argive plain and so of the agricultural resources of the chora (de Polignac 1996, 51-78;Billot 1997). This sanctuary is in fact located on a terrace above the plain and is linked visually with the acropolis of the Larissa at Argos on the other side of the plain.…”