Argia (mythology)
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Argia /ɑːrˈdʒaɪə/, Argea /ɑːrˈdʒiːə/, or Argeia[1] (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεία, romanized: Argeía) may refer to several figures in Greek mythology:
- Argia, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.[2] She was the mother of Phoroneus, by her brother Inachus, a river-god of Argos.[3] Argeia may also have been the mother (by Inachus) of Io.[4]
- Argia, wife of Polybus and mother of Argus.[5] The later was the builder of the ship Argo from the story of Jason and the Argonauts.[6] Others credited Danaus[7] or Arestor[8] to be this Argus' father.
- Argia, an Argive princess as the daughter of King Adrastus and Amphithea, daughter of Pronax. She married Polynices, son of Oedipus and bore him three sons: Thersander,[9] Adrastus and Timeas.
- Argia, a Theban princess as the daughter of King Autesion. She married Aristodemus and became the mother of twins, Eurysthenes and Procles, the ancestors of the two royal houses of Sparta.[10]
- Argeia, was also an epithet of the Greek goddess Hera derived from Argos, the principal seat of her worship.
