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ARGUS

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 483 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARGUS , in ancient
Greek
  mythology, the son of Inachus, Agenor or Arestor, or, according to others, an earth-born hero (autochthon). He was called Panoptes (all-seeing), from having eyes all over his
body
 . After performing several feats of valour, he was appointed by Hera to
watch
  the cow into which Io had been transformed. While doing this he was slain by
Hermes
 , who stoned him to death, or put him to sleep by playing on the
flute
  and then cut off his head. His eyes were transferred by Hera to the tail of the
peacock
 . Argus with his countless eyes originally denoted the starry heavens (Apollodorus ii. 1;
Aeschylus
 , P. V. 569;
Ovid
 , Metam. i. 264).
Another ARGUS, the old dog of Odysseus, who recognized his master on his return to Ithaca, figures in one of the best-known incidents in
Homer
 's Odyssey (xvii. 291-326).


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