Argus

**Argus** is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word _Argos_. It may mean:

## Greek mythology

- See Argus (Greek myth) for mythological characters named Argus
    - Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe
    - Argus (son of Arestor), builder of the ship _Argo_ in the tale of the Argonauts
    - Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes
    - Argus, the eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope
    - Argus, the 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
    - Argus or Argos (dog), the faithful dog of Odysseus
    - Argus or Argeus (king of Argos), the son of Megapenthes
    - Argus, one of Actaeon's dogs
    - Argus, a watchful guardian

### Gaming

- ARGUS (_Splinter Cell_), a fictional private military contractor in the _Splinter Cell_ series
- _Argus_ (video game), a 1986 Famicom game by NMK
- _Argus no Senshi_, the original Japanese title for the arcade game _Rygar_
- Argus, a fictional planet in the _Warcraft_ computer game franchise
- The KNRB-0 Argus, an autonomous weapons platform in the video game _Vanquish_
- Argus, a hero in _Mobile Legends: Bang Bang_

### Music

- _Argus_ (album), a 1972 album by Wishbone Ash
- "The Argus", a song by Ween from the album _Quebec_

### Other media

- "Argus" (_30 Rock_), a 2010 episode in the TV comedy series
- Argus (comics), a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe
- Argus (_Mortal Kombat_), a fictional deity in the series
- _Argus_ (TV series), a Norwegian TV debate series that aired between 1993 and 1994
- A.R.G.U.S., a fictional government agency in the DC Universe
- Argus Filch, a fictional character in the _Harry Potter_ series
- _The Manhattan Argus_, a fictional newspaper in the 1994 Coen brothers film, _The Hudsucker Proxy_

## Businesses

- Argus (camera company), a camera manufacturer
- Argus Brewery, a brewing company located in the historic Pullman District in Chicago, Illinois
- Argus Corporation, a Canadian holding company once controlled by Conrad Black
- Argus Media Ltd, a business information company
- Argos (retailer), a British catalogue retailer

### Iran

- Argus, Iran, a village in Kerman Province

### Spain

- Argos (river), a river in the region of Murcia

### United States

- Argus, California, an unincorporated community
- Argus, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
- Argus Range, a mountain range in Inyo County, California

## Publishing

- _See The Argus (disambiguation) for publications named "The Argus"_

### United Kingdom

- _The Argus_ (Brighton), a newspaper serving Brighton and Hove, England; a member of the Newsquest Media Group
- _South Wales Argus_, published in Newport, South Wales; a member of the Newsquest Media Group
- Argus Press, a British publishing company

### United States

- _Barre Montpelier Times Argus_, a daily morning newspaper serving the capital region of Vermont
- _Carlsbad Current-Argus_, a New Mexico newspaper
- _Livingston County Daily Press & Argus_, a newspaper that covers Livingston County, Michigan
- _The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus_, American newspaper that covers the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa
- _Argus Leader_, American newspaper that covers Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- _Argus_, a newspaper in Albany, New York, which long functioned as the organ of the Albany Regency
- _Argus_, Midwood High School's school newspaper

### Elsewhere

- _The Argus_ (Dundalk), a newspaper serving Dundalk, Ireland; a member of the Independent News & Media group also known as Independent.ie
- _The Argus_ (Melbourne), former Australian newspaper of record, established in 1846 and closed in 1957
- _Cape Argus_, a newspaper printed in Cape Town, South Africa
- _Weekend Argus_, a newspaper in South Africa, owned by Independent News & Media
- _Goondiwindi Argus_, a newspaper in Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia, owned by Fairfax Media

## Sport

- Argus finals system, a set of tournament systems used in Australian rules football finals series in the early 20th century
- Cape Argus Cycle Race, a major cycling event in South Africa, colloquially referred to as "The Argus"

### Biology

- Argus (bird), pheasants from the genera _Argusianus_ and _Rheinartia_
- Argus butterflies, including:
    - Nymphalidae, e.g., _Erebia_, _Junonia_
    - Polyommatinae (Lycaenidae), e.g., as _Aricia_, _Plebeius_, _Polyommatus_
    - Theclinae (Lycaenidae): the invalid genus _Argus_ (described by Gerhard, 1850), now in _Satyrium_
- Argus monitor (_Varanus panoptes_), a species of lizard
- _Scatophagus argus_, a species of fish of the family Scatophagidae
- _Terebra argus_, a mollusk of the family Terebridae

### Electronics and computing

- Argus (monitoring software), a network and systems monitoring application
- Argus (programming language), an extension of the CLU language designed for distributed systems
- Argus - Audit Record Generation and Utilization System, a network auditing system
- Argus retinal prosthesis, a bionic eye implant manufactured by Second Sight
- Ferranti Argus, a line of industrial control computers
- ARGUS-IS, a wide-area surveillance system produced by BAE Systems
- Oracle Argus Safety, a pharmacovigilance system from Oracle Health Sciences

### Other uses in science and technology

- Argus (camera company), a brand of camera
- Argus Coastal Monitoring, a video system for observing coastal processes and related phenomena
- ARGUS distribution, a probability distribution used in particle physics
- Argus Motoren, a German aircraft engine manufacturing firm
- ARGUS reactor, an aqueous homogeneous nuclear reactor at the Russian Kurchatov Institute
- Operation Argus, a 1958 US military effort to create orbital electron belts using atomic bombs

### Types

- Argus (automobile), a German automobile manufactured between 1901 and 1909
- Fairchild Argus, a British version of the C-61 Forwarder light military transport aircraft

### Named vessels

- CP-107 _Argus_, a Royal Canadian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft
- French brig _Argus_ (1800), a French naval ship that took part in the Battle of Trafalgar
- HMS _Argus_, the name of many ships in the British Royal Navy
- RFA _Argus_ (A135), a 1981 Primary Casualty Receiving Ship in Britain's Royal Fleet Auxiliary
- USS _Argus_, various ships of the United States Navy
- SS Argus, a steel hulled ship lost in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913

## Related pages

- The Argus (disambiguation), the name of many newspapers
- Argos (disambiguation)