Prosymna () was a town in ancient Argolis, in whose territory the celebrated Heraeum, or temple of Hera, stood.[Statius, Theb. 4.44.] Pausanias mentions only a district of this name.
Archaeology
The place was inhabited since the Neolithic Greece. In 1878, the area of ancient Prosymna, Panagiotis Stamatakis found a beehive tomb that was built in the Mycenaean Greece epoch and that was also reused in later periods. Archaeological investigations continued under the auspices of the Swedish Institute at Athens in the 1930s and then during the 1980s and 1990s that found two settlement areas on two different sides of the Mastos hill slope, belonging to the Early and Late Helladic periods, respectively. They have found chamber tombs and large amounts of pottery that testify that the place was an important center of production of this material for many centuries. During the Hellenistic period and the early and late Roman Greece the area also experienced a boom.[ Berbati en Argolis on the website of the Swedish Institute of Athens.]
