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Argos Pelasgikon () is a Homeric location of ancient Thessaly mentioned in the "Catalogue of Ships" passage: online here It has been interpreted to be a city in the Pelasgiotis district or an alternative name of Phthia,The Cambridge Ancient History: The Egyptian and Hittite empires to c. 1000 B.C By John Bagnell Bury, Stanley Arthur Cook, Frank Ezra Adcock, Martin Percival Charlesworth v. 2 - 1923 Page 481 the kingdom of Peleus and Achilles or pertaining to the whole Thessaly.Landmarks of Homeric Study By W E Gladstone Page 40 (2009) Strabo reports that: Some take the Pelasgian Argos as a Thessalian city once situated in the neighborhood of Larissa but now no longer existent; but others take it, not as a city, but as the plain of the Thessalians, which is referred to by this name because Abas, who brought a colony there from Ancient Argos, so named itGeographica 9.5.5. Strabo gives also the following post-classical meaning of the word 'argos': And in the more recent writers the plain, too, is called Argos, but not once in Homer. Yet they think that this is more especially a Macedonian or Aeolic Greek usage.Geographica 8.6.9
Finally, although Homeric geography of Thessaly is not limited in this passage, the toponym "Thessalia" is absent in Homer.Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey By Richard Claverhous Jebb Page 39 (2008) The unique element of the name is restricted to King Thessalus, son of Heracles, whose sons, Pheidippus and Antiphus appear as leaders from Dodecanese insular kingdoms in the "Catalogue of Ships".Iliad 2.679
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