Prosimna
Sign in to savethumb|Beehive tomb found at Prosymna. Prosymna () was a town in ancient Argolis, in whose territory the celebrated Heraeum, or temple of Hera, stood. Statius gives it the epithet "celsa." Pausanias mentions only a district of this name. According to Greek mythology, its name derives from a daughter of Asterion called Prosymna who, together with her sisters Acraea and Euboea, were wet-nurses of Hera.
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- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Argos-Mykines Municipality
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- Prosymna (ancient town)
- time period
- Ancient Greece
- culture
- Ancient Greece
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