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Thucydides mentions that Argilos was a colony of Andros. He singles out Argilians as participants in the plot which betrayed the Athenian colony of Amphipolis (on the lower Strymon) to the Spartans--it was because Thucydides didn't arrive in time to prevent the loss of Amphipolis that he was exiled for 20 years.

The Spartan commander Pausanias won the battle of Plataea in 479 B.C. against the Persians. Pausanias later conspired with Xerxes. According to Thucydides his treason was discovered when a man from Argilos who had been his boy-toy (paidika) informed on him.

Just a couple of notable moments in the history of Argilos...