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 

## Arts and entertainment
### 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

## Places
### 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"

## Science and technology
### 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

## Vehicles
### 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)