Argus (mythology)
Set of mythological Greek characters
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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.[1]
- Argus, king of Argos, son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe (Argive).[2]
- Argus, son of Callirhoe and Piras (son of the above Argus) and brother to Arestorides and Triops.[3]
- 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, builder of the ship Argo in the tale of the Argonauts.[4]
- Argus, eldest son of Phrixus[5] and Chalciope (Iophassa[6]), and husband of Perimele, daughter of Admetus and Alcestis.[7] By her, he became the father of Magnes, the father of Hymenaios.[8] Argus was erroneously conflated with the above Argus Arestorides who was the shipwright of the Argo and counted as one of the Argonauts.[9]
- Argus, a son of Jason.[10] He was loved by Heracles and because of him the hero joined Jason and the Argonauts.[11]
- Argus, son of Pan and among the Pans who came to join Dionysus in his campaign against India.[12]
- Argus, a warrior in the army of the Seven against Thebes, who was killed by Hypseus, son of Asopus.[13]
- 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.[14]
- Argus or Argos (dog), the faithful dog of Odysseus.[15]
- Argus, one of Actaeon's dogs[citation needed]
