Argus (king of Argos)

In Greek mythology, Argus (Ancient Greek: "Ἄργος, Argos) was the king and eponym of Argos. He was a son of Zeus and Niobe, the daughter of Phoroneus, and possibly the brother of Pelasgus.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.1. This apparently matches his biography in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women; cf. . Argus succeeded to his maternal grandfather's power over Peloponnese, naming the kingdom after himself.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 16. 1 A scholiast on Homer calls Argus son and successor of Apis.Scholia on Iliad, 1. 115
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.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 1. 2; Hyginus, Fabulae, 145; Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 25. 8 (for Tiryns); scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1116, on Orestes, 932 According to Pausanias, Argus' yet another son was the Argive Phorbas (elsewhere his grandson through Criasus).
The tomb of Argus in Argos was shown as late as the times of Pausanias,Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 22. 5 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.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3. 4. 1.
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==Bibliography==
* Pseudo-Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
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