Mythology
- Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes.
- 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, 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
Read more about this topic: Argus
Famous quotes containing the word mythology:
“This is the frost coming out of the ground; this is Spring. It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry. I know of nothing more purgative of winter fumes and indigestions. It convinces me that Earth is still in her swaddling-clothes, and stretches forth baby fingers on every side.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“Love, love, love—all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)