Argus
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There are five figures in Greek mythology named Argus or Argos (Άργος).
- Argus Panoptes (Argus "all eyes") is a giant with a hundred eyes. He was also the nymph Io's nephew.
- Argus was the eponym of the city 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.
- Argos (dog) is the long-lived dog of Odysseus in the Odyssey.
- Argus in the tale of the Argonauts is a shipwright, the builder of the ship the Argo, which is named after him. The vessel was used by Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason and his compatriots called themselves Argonauts, after the ship.
- Argus was the eldest son of Phrixus and Chalciope, daughter of Aeëtes. 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 Cytissorus, Melas and Phrontis aided Jason and the Argonauts in their quest, and later returned with them to Greece.
Additionally, in the 1988 NES game The Battle of Olympus, when the hero buys the Divine Sword from the god Hephaestus in Phthia, the god tells him that he now "grants him the Power of Argus." Anything more than this, or sources to who or which Argus he could have meant, is unclear.
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