Argos Museum

We drove out of Athens for a day trip to see two of the best Mycenean sites, but first we stopped to check out the museum nearby in Argos. Argos was the classical Greek city that controlled the region, but today the town is pretty small.

The acropolis from Argos' days as a city state is still up there. During war or raids the Argives could retreat to this fortress. It also gave sentries a good view of the entire area.
A (relative) close-up of the acropolis.
A pot from the geometric period. The museum has a decent collection of pots from this period, a part of the dark age between the fall of the Mycenaeans and the rise of the later Greeks.
Another pot.
A big pot decorated with fish.
Odysseus' men blinding the cyclops Polyphemos. The Odyssey hadn't been written down when this pot was made, but many of the myths predate Homer.
Dark age armor. This is pretty similar to what later Greek hoplites would fight in, but no weapons or shields (the hopla in hoplite) were found.
A tortoise-shell lyre. Only the lighter parts in the bottom are original. The lyre was a very popular musical instruments among the Greeks and other ancient cultures, and the Greeks gave Hermes credit for inventing it from a tortoise and some string.
A Roman-era mosaic. They had several of these outside.