Argus

Argus may refer to:

Mythology

• Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes.
• Argus-Pelasgus, son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe; succeeded Phoroneus as King of Argos
• Argus, son of Arestor, builder of the ship Argo in the tale of the Argonauts
• Argus, the eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope. Argus and his brothers set out to return to their grandfather's kingdom of Orchomenus, but were shipwrecked and rescued by the Argonauts
• Argus, the son of Phineus (or Phineas) and Danaë, in a rare variant of the myth in which she and her two sons (the other being Argeus) travel to Italy
• A variant spelling of Argos (dog), the faithful dog of Odysseus
• A variant spelling of Argeus (king of Argos), the son of Megapenthes, and possibly the father of Anaxagoras.

Technology

• Argus (automobile), German automobile manufactured between 1901 and 1909
• Argus (camera company), brand of camera
• Argus (monitoring software), network and systems monitoring application
• Argus (programming language), an extension of the CLU language, designed for distributed systems
• Argus Motoren, German aircraft engine manufacturing firm
• Audit Record Generation and Utilization System, fixed-model real-time flow monitor
• The ARGUS reactor, aqueous homogeneous nuclear reactor at the Russian Research Centre, Kurchatov Institute
• Ferranti Argus, line of industrial control computers
• Argus, a type of retinal prosthesis
• ARGUS-IS, a wide area surveillance system produced by BAE Systems, featuring a 1.8 Gigapixel camera
• ARGUSOPS, a high tech security solutions and technology company based in Mumbai, India
• ARGUS, Autonomous Remote Global Underwater Surveillance, an autonomous crowd source bathymetry system.

Entertainment

• Argus (album), 1972 album by Wishbone Ash
• "The Argus", song by Ween on the album Quebec
• Argus (comics), fictional character who has associated with The Flash in the DC comics universe
• Argus Filch, fictional character in the Harry Potter series
• "Argus", an episode in the TV comedy series 30 Rock
• Argus, deity of the Mortal Kombat series
• ARGUS (Splinter Cell), private military contractor of the Splinter Cell series
• Argus, the ancestral homeland of the Eredar race in fictional Warcraft Universe
• Argus, the 15th colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus
• Argus, model of Mech in the Battletech universe and makes one of its first appearances in Mechwarrior 4
• "Argus (or "Argos") no Senshi", the original Japanese title for Rygar (arcade game)
• Argus, prototype-only arcade video game by Gottlieb also known as Protector
• Argus, a Notorious Monster in the Final Fantasy XI MMORPG
• Argus Midwood High School's school newspaper.

Military

• CP-107 Argus, a Royal Canadian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft
• HMS Argus, one of many ships of the British Royal Navy
• RFA Argus (A135), an aviation training ship in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
• USS Argus (1803), a brig of the United States Navy
• Fairchild Argus, a British version of the C-61 Forwarder light military transport aircraft

Publishing

• The Cape Argus newspaper printed in Cape Town, South Africa
• Argus Press, a British publishing company
• The Glasgow Argus, a former Scottish newspaper
• The Argus newspaper of Albany, New York, which long functioned as the organ of the Albany Regency
• The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus, American newspaper that covers the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa
• The Argus Leader American newspaper that covers Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Other fields

• Argus (bird), pheasants from the genera Argusianus and Rheinartia
• Argus butterflies can be
  • Nymphalidae, e.g. Erebia, Junonia
  • Polyommatinae (Lycaenidae), e.g. as Aricia, Plebeius, Polyommatus
  • Theclinae (Lycaenidae): the invalid genus Argus (described by Gerhard, 1850), now in Satyrium
• Argus (described by Bohadsch in 1761): a gastropod genus in the family Discodoridae
• Argus Corporation, large Canadian holding company once controlled by Conrad Black
• Argus distribution, a probability distribution used in particle physics
• Argus monitor, (Varanus panoptes) a species of lizard
• Argus Media Ltd, independent global provider of energy sector price information, market data and business intelligence.
• Argus (automobile)
• Argus (camera company)
• Argus (monitoring software)
• Argus (arcade game)
• Argus (TV show)
• Cape Argus Cycle Race, a major cycling event in South Africa, colloquially referred to as The Argus
• Operation Argus, a 1958 test to create electron belts using atomic bombs
• two systems for determining the Premiers of the Victorian Football League's competition in 1901, and from 1902 to 1930 respectively
  • Original Argus system
  • Amended Argus system,
• ARGUSOPS, ARGUS SECUREOPS Pvt. Ltd., a high tech security solutions and technology company based in Mumbai, India

See also

• Argos (disambiguation)
• The Argus (disambiguation), the name of several newspapers

Regnal titles
Preceded by Apis	King of Argos	Succeeded by Criasus