Argus

This article is about the Greek king. For the location, see Argos.

Argus
Depiction from the Nuremberg Chronicle
King of Argos
General Information
Species	Demigod
Sex	Male
Relationships
Parents	Zeus (father) Niobe (mother)
Consorts	Ismene
Spouses	Evadne
Children	Criasos (son) Argus Panoptes (son) via Ismene
Languages
Hellēnikḗ(Ancient Greek)	Ἄργος

Argus or Argos (Ancient Greek: Ἄργος), was the king and eponym of Argos.

Mythology

Reign

Argus succeeded to his maternal grandfather's power over the Peloponnese, naming the kingdom after himself. A scholiast on Homer calls Argus the son and successor of Apis. St. Jerome and Eusebius, citing the now-lost history of Castor of Rhodes, also agree in making Argus the successor of Apis, and the son of Zeus and Niobe, and give the length of his reign over "Argeia" (Argos) as 70 years.

Tomb

The tomb of Argus in Argos was shown as late as the times of Pausanias, who also made mention of a grove sacred to Argus in Lacedaemon where some from the Argive army took refuge after being defeated by Cleomenes I, and were subsequently burned to death therein.

Family

He was a son of Zeus and Niobe, daughter of Phoroneus, and was possibly the brother of Pelasgus. Argus married either Evadne, the daughter of Strymon and Neaera, or Peitho the Oceanid, and had by her six sons: Criasus, Ecbasus, Iasus, Peiranthus (or Peiras, Peirasus, Peiren), Epidaurus and Tiryns (said by Pausanias to be the namesake of the city Tiryns).

According to Pausanias, yet another son of Argus was the Argive Phorbas (elsewhere his grandson through Criasus). Meanwhile, Cercops speaks of Argus Panoptes as the son of Argus and Ismene.

Inachid Genealogy in Greek mythology

Inachus   Melia                                                                                                   Zeús   Io                 Phoroneus   Teledice                                                                                                                   Epaphus   Memphis             Apis             Argus   Evadne                                                                                                 Libya   Poseidôn                               Criasos   Melantho                                                                                                                           Belos   Achiroe             Agenor   Telephassa                     Phorbas   Cleobea                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Danaus   Pieria   Aegyptus   Cadmus   Cilix   Europa   Phoenix   Gelanor       Triopas             Jasus                                                                                                                     Hypermnestra       Lynceus   Kings of Thebes   Kings of Cilicia   Kings of Crete   Kings of Phoenicia                         Sosis               Nepeira                               Lacedaemon                                                                                                             Sparta Abas           Ocalea                                       Crotopos             Sthenelos                                                                       Eurydice         Acrisius   Proetus   Stheneboea                                                       Zeús   Danaë           Megapenthes   Demophile                                                               Perseus   Andromeda           Argeos   Pyrante                                                                                                     Alcaeus     Electryon   Sthenelus     Anaxagoras                         Hyrmine                                 Astydamia           Eurydice                             Nicippe                                                                             Amphitryon         Alcmene     Zeús   Eurystheus           Alector   Iphis   Helice                                                                                                         Automedusa   Iphicles         Heracles                     Itea           Sthenelius                                                                                       Cylabares           Iolaus   Megara                                             Heraclidae (see Heraclid genealogy)               Bacchiadae After Eurystheus, the kingdom of Mycenae passed to the Atreids in the person of Atreus After Cylabares, the kingdom of Argos passed to the Atreids of Mycenae in the person of Orestes (Atreus' grandson)

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