Qualla: Hermione: The City at the Edge of the World https://qualla.com/hermione-argolis en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/s/hermione-argolis-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hermione: The City at the Edge of the World https://qualla.com/hermione-argolis Hermione: The City at the Edge of the World: Introduction https://qualla.com/hermione-argolis/ Photo credit Donarreiskoffer, CC BY-SA 4.0. Homer listed it in the Catalogue of Ships. The Dryopes built it after Heracles drove them from their homeland. Its citizens sent three ships to Salamis and three hundred men to Plataea, doing their small part in the war that saved Greek civilisation. The people of Hermione believed they lived next to a back door to the underworld — there was an opening in the earth in the sanctuary of Clymenus, and they were so confident it led directly to Hades that they saw no need to put coins in the mouths of their dead to pay the ferryman. Why bother, when the road to death was already free and close? The modern village of Ermioni sits where the old city stood, on a small peninsula pointing south toward the island of Hydra, and the gulf between them still carries Hermione's name.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/s/hermione-argolis-wp/sw8s-hermione-the-city-at-the-edge-of-the-world-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hermione: The City at the Edge of the World: The People Heracles Displaced https://qualla.com/hermione-argolis/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Greek mythology gives Hermione's founding to the Dryopes, a people who appear in several ancient sources but who have never been easy to locate with precision on any map of the ancient world. According to tradition, Heracles drove them from their original territory around Mount O...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/s/hermione-argolis-wp/sw8s-hermione-the-city-at-the-edge-of-the-world-the-people-heracles-displaced.mp3 0:06 2 full Hermione: The City at the Edge of the World: The Gulf Between the Worlds https://qualla.com/hermione-argolis/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Hermionitic Gulf is the body of water between the southern Argolic coast and the island of Hydra. Ancient geographers were careful to distinguish it from both the Argolic Gulf to the north and the Saronic Gulf to the east — it had its own identity, its own name, derived from ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/s/hermione-argolis-wp/sw8s-hermione-the-city-at-the-edge-of-the-world-the-gulf-between-the-worlds.mp3 0:06 3 full Hermione: The City at the Edge of the World: Temples, Echoes, and the Shortest Road to Hades https://qualla.com/hermione-argolis/ Photo credit Mark Landon (photographed in 1991; digitized in 2021), CC BY 4.0. Pausanias catalogued what he saw at Hermione with his usual thoroughness, and what he found was remarkable. The most important temple was the sanctuary of Demeter Chthonia — Demeter of the Earth Below — a Dryopian cult that persisted even after Argives displaced the original popu...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/s/hermione-argolis-wp/sw8s-hermione-the-city-at-the-edge-of-the-world-temples-echoes-and-the-shortest-road-to-hades.mp3 0:06 4 full Hermione: The City at the Edge of the World: Wars, Tyrants, and Quiet Continuity https://qualla.com/hermione-argolis/ Photo credit Mark Landon (photographed in 1991; digitized in 2021), CC BY 4.0. Hermione's political history followed the erratic rhythms of the ancient Greek world. The Hermionians sent three ships to Salamis in 480 BC and 300 soldiers to Plataea in 479 BC, contributing to the defeat of the Persian invasion on a scale appropriate to a small but independent ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/s/hermione-argolis-wp/sw8s-hermione-the-city-at-the-edge-of-the-world-wars-tyrants-and-quiet-continuity.mp3 0:06 5 full Hermione: The City at the Edge of the World: Excavations on the Promontory https://qualla.com/hermione-argolis/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Systematic archaeological investigation of Hermione began only in 2015, when Greek and Swedish archaeologists launched a joint programme called A Greek Cityscape and Its People, continued since 2018 as Hermione: A Model City. The project uses integrated methods — architectural su...

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