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The name "Argus" means "bright." There are five figures in Greek mythology named Argus:
1. Argus (Argus Panoptes, Argus "all eyes") was a giant with a hundred eyes. He was thus a very effective watchman, as only a few of the eyes would sleep at a time; there were always several eyes still awake. Argus was Hera's servant. His great service to the Olympian pantheon was to slay the chthonic serpent-legged monster Echidna as she slept in her cave ( Homer, Iliad ii.783; Hesiod, Theogony, 295ff; Apollodorus, ii.i.2). Hera's last task for Argus was to guard a white heifer from Zeus. "Tether this cow safely to an olive-tree at Nemea," she charged him. Hera knew that the heifer was in reality Io, one of the many nymphs Zeus was coupling with to establish the new order.
To free Io, Zeus had Argus slain by HermesDionysus, by Praxiteles Hermes (Greek: 'pile of marker stones'), in Greek mythology, is the god of travelers, shepherds, land travel, orators, literature, cunning, poets, athletics, weights and measures, and thieves, and the messenger from the gods to hum. Hermes succeeded in putting all of Argus' eyes asleep with boring stories, being disguised as a shepherd. To commemorate her faithful watchman, Hera had the hundred eyes of Argus preserved forever, in a peacock's tail ( OvidFor other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation Publius Ovidius Naso ( March 20, 43 BC AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets, with I, 625).
2. Argus (or ArgosArgos ( Greek: , rgos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnesus near Nafplio, which was its historic harbor, named for Nauplius. The region of Argos was called the Argolid. It was a major stronghold of Mycenaean times, but the pre-Greek name of its acropoli) is also the name of a long-lived dog owned by OdysseusThis article is about the mythological character. See also Odysseus crater, Ulysses (robot), Ulysses (novel Odysseus Laertiades (Greek: ', 'son of Laertes'), or simply Odysseus is a character in Greek mythology, known as Ulysses or Ulixes in Roman mytholo in OdysseyFor the cable TV channel formerly called Odyssey, see the Hallmark Channel. The Odyssey is the second of the two great Greek epic poems ascribed to Homer, the first being the Iliad''. The book follows the events of the voyage of Odysseus, king of Ithaca,. When Odysseus returns from his voyages and wears the disguise of a beggar that AthenaThis article is about the goddess Athena. For other uses see Athena (disambiguation). Aegina Athena ( Phoenician Onga also transliterated as Athene the Greek goddess of wisdom, strategy, and war associated by the Romans with their Etruscan goddess Minerva places upon him, only Odysseus's old dog, Argus, recognizes him and dies afterwards.
3. Argus in the tale of the Argonauts is a shipwright, the builder of the ship the ArgoThe Argo was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcus to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The Argo was built by Argus, son of Phrixus. The Argo had the gifts of speech and prophecy because it was made of oak wood from the oracle at Dodona., named after its builder. The vessel was used by JasonThis article is about the Greek mythological hero Jason. For other Jasons, see Jason (disambiguation). Gustave Moreau's Jason Jason "" in Greek, is a hero of Greek mythology. His father was Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus. His real name was Diomedes an in his quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason and his compatriots called themselves Argonauts, after the ship.
4. Argus was the eponym of Argos. The son of Zeus and Niobe, daughter of Phoroneus, he succeeded his uncle Apis as King of Phoronea, which he renamed after himself. According to one account, he married Evadne, the daughter of Strymon and Neaera, and bore Ecbasus , Peiras , Epidaurus and Criasus . According to another account, his wife was nameless, and his sons were Peiras, Phorbas , and Tiryns .
5. Argus was the eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope, daughter of Aeetes. Argus and his brothers set out to return to their grandfather's kingdom of Orchomenus, but were shipwrecked and rescued by the Argonauts. Argus and his brothers aided Jason and the Argonauts in their quest, and later returned with them to Greece.
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