The village has remains from the early Stone Age. Here the hunters came by when they were hunting animals in the flourishing and rich valley. Now and then they lost some of their weapons, it could be a stone axe, a spear point or an arrowhead, which can be found even in our days. During the period of the Mycenaeans the village reached the climax of its splendor period. Here the ceramic pots, weapons and other tools typical for that periodwere made.
On the mountainsides, which at that time still were forested, the officials in high positions had their summer residences. They were then able to send messages to each other with help of fires during the night. When the Mycenaeans with their allies conquered Troy and brought back the Lovely Helena to her right place and her legitimated husband, fires from one mountaintop to the next immediately messaged it. Even these days you can see here and there small fires during the winter. Shepherds use them to warm themselves and to tell other people where they are staying.
During the Antique and Roman period the valley was the recreation center including gymnastics and sport centers as well as bathhouses.
During the Byzantine period though, the Christians saw these buildings and centers as heathen, and they were all torn down.
That also happened during the Second World War. German soldiers used to visit the village once a week to collect provisions. It happened one day that a group of the partisans, who had their base in the mountains, had the whole German column, which included six men, killed. As soon as the Germans learned what had happened, they sent a troop, which surrounded the village. At that time they did not succeed in taking prisoners, because all their enemies were able to hide in the ravines situated in the surrounding area. As a revenge the Germans destroyed the whole village by burning it to the ground. A few days later the Germans forced all the men of the village to gather on the square, and they chose forty young men to be brought to Argos to be executed as compensation for the six German soldiers. Fortunately, for some reason that decision was changed in the last moment and all the young men were able to return to their families. Maybe the reason for letting these men free was that village people did not make the action in the first place.