Η ασπίδα του Άργους µέσα στο χρόνο: η διαχρονία ενός πολιτικού συµβόλου

Abstract

Having become a topos of scientific literature, the Argive or Argolic shield, as imperial sources and modern studies call it, is here the subject of a historiographical deconstruction. Rather than attempting to find in this expression a real defensive weapon, that is genuinely Argive, we study this shield and its setting for its role as a political symbol throughout Antiquity and the role of the Argive city in the development of this symbol.