ABSTRACT
The political history of Argos gives the impression of a stodgy unimaginative people, content for the most part to hold their restricted territory and unable to devise the means for themselves of achieving their ambition, the recovery of the lost regions of Thyreatis and Kynouria. Though they succeeded in establishing a democracy, it did not attain the brilliance of that at Athens. It was more a middle of the road affair, a peasant democracy rather than a democracy of city-dwellers (as was the Athenian to an abnormal degree in Classical Greece).
