Argus (Greek myth)
In Greek mythology, Argus or Argos (/ˈɑːrɡəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος Argos) may refer to the following personages
- Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes.
- Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe (Argive).
- Argus, son of Callirhoe and Piras (son of the above Argus) and brother to Arestorides and Triops.
- Argus, 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.[citation needed]
- Argus or Argeus (king of Argos), son of Megapenthes.
- Argus (son of Arestor), builder of the ship Argo in the tale of the Argonauts.
- Argus, eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope (Iophassa), and husband of Perimele, daughter of Admetus and Alcestis. By her, he became the father of Magnes, the father of Hymenaios.
- Argus, son of Jason and Medea. He was loved by Heracles and because of him the hero joined Jason and the Argonauts.
- Argus, son of Zeus and Lardane and brother of Sarpedon.
- Argus, son of Pan and among the Pans who came to join Dionysus in his campaign against India.
- Argus, a warrior in the army of the Seven against Thebes, who was killed by Hypseus, son of Asopus.
- Argus, son of Abas and one of the defenders of Thebes in the war of the Seven against Thebes. He was killed by Parthenopaeus, son of Atalanta.
- Argus or Argos (dog), the faithful dog of Odysseus.
- Argus, one of Actaeon's dogs[citation needed]
Notes
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.3.
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.1
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 145
- ^ Pausanias, 2.18.4
- ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.4
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 15; Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1122 citing Hesiod's Ehoiai
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.16
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, 5.460; Argonautica Orphica 861
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 23
- ^ Smith, William (1870). "Alcimenes". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology: Vol 1. p. 102. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
- ^ Photius, Bibliotheca excerpts, 190.14
- ^ Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. pp. 5–6.
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.67 ff.
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 4.804 & 8.445
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 9.758
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 17.292 ff
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