# Prosymna

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[[File:Prosymna Tholos 4.JPG|thumb|[Beehive tomb](/source/Beehive_tomb) found at Prosymna.]]
'''Prosymna''' ({{langx|grc|Πρόσυμνα}}) was a town in [ancient Argolis](/source/ancient_Argolis), in whose territory the celebrated [Heraeum](/source/Heraion_of_Argos), or temple of [Hera](/source/Hera), stood.<ref>{{Cite Strabo|viii. p.373}}</ref> [Statius](/source/Statius) gives it the epithet "celsa."<ref>[Statius](/source/Statius), ''Theb.'' 4.44.</ref> [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)) mentions only a district of this name.<ref name=Pausanias>{{Cite Pausanias|2|17|2}}</ref> According to [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology), its name derives from a daughter of [Asterion](/source/Asterion_(god)) called [Prosymna](/source/Prosymna_(mythology)) who, together with her sisters [Acraea](/source/Acraea) and [Euboea](/source/Euboea_(mythology)), were wet-nurses of Hera.<ref name=Pausanias/><ref>{{cite wikisource|anchor=Prosymna|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography| volume=2|scan=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography Volume II.djvu/687| year=1857| chapter=Prosymna| author-last=Smith| author-first=William|page=671}}</ref>

==Archaeology==
The place was inhabited since the [Neolithic period](/source/Neolithic_Greece). In 1878, the area of ancient Prosymna, [Panagiotis Stamatakis](/source/Panagiotis_Stamatakis) found a [beehive tomb](/source/beehive_tomb) that was built in the [Mycenaean](/source/Mycenaean_Greece) epoch and that was also reused in later periods. Archaeological investigations continued under the auspices of the [Swedish Institute at Athens](/source/Swedish_Institute_at_Athens) in the 1930s and then during the 1980s and 1990s that found two settlement areas on two different sides of the Mastos hill slope, belonging to the Early and Late [Helladic periods](/source/Helladic_chronology), respectively. They have found chamber tombs and large amounts of pottery that testify that the place was an important center of production of this material for many centuries. During the [Hellenistic period](/source/Hellenistic_period) and the early and late [Roman](/source/Roman_Greece) the area also experienced a boom.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicolás Platón|title= La Civilization égéenne|volume=2: Le Bronze récent et la civilization mycénienne|page=217|location=Paris|publisher=Albin Michel|year=1981|isbn= 2-226-01304-0|language=French}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20161010210623/http://www.sia.gr/old-field-projects/berbati/ Berbati en Argolis] on the website of the Swedish Institute of Athens.</ref>

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{{Coord|37.68|N|22.78|E|format=dms|display=title|source:http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/46253.html}}

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