Argus (Greek mythology)
In Greek mythology, Argus or Argos (/ˈɑːrɡəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος) may refer to the following figures:
- Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes who guarded Io.[1]
- Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe; Zeus's first child by a mortal.[2]
- Argus (son of Arestor), shipwright who built the ship Argo in the tale of the Argonauts
- Argus, the eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope.
- Argus, the son of Phineus and Danaë, in a rare variant of the myth in which she and her two sons (the other being Argeus) travel to Italy
- Argus or Argos (dog), the faithful dog of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey
- Argus or Argeus (king of Argos), the son of Megapenthes
- Argus, one of Actaeon's dogs
- Argus, a watchful guardian
References
- ^ Therefore called Arestorides (Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca ii.1.3, Apollonius Rhodius i.112, Ovid Metamorphoses i.624). According to Pausanias (ii.16.3), Arestor was the consort of Mycene, the eponymous nymph of nearby Mycenae.
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.1. This apparently matches his biography in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women; cf. West (1985, p. 76).
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