Argeus
Family: Epidaurian · Role: son of Deiphontes and Hyrnetho · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 28
In Book 2, Chapter 28, Argeus is named as a son of Deiphontes and Hyrnetho. After Hyrnetho’s death, he is among the children who accompany Deiphontes as he carries her body to Hyrnethium, where a chapel is built in her memory.
In Book 5, Chapter 17, Argeus is listed among those ready to race, alongside Melanion, Neotheus, Phalareus and Iphiclus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Deiphontes and his children bury Hyrnetho and establish a chapel honoring her.(Book 2 · Chapter 28 · 📍 Hyrnethium)
- With: Deiphontes Antimenes Xanthippus (son of Deiphontes) Orsobia Hyrnetho
- “And they built a chapel to her memory and paid her other honours”
Book 2 · Chapter 28
- parent: Deiphontes “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”
- parent: Hyrnetho “Deiphontes with his sons (for he had had by Hyrnetho Antimenes and Xanthippus and Argeus, and one daughter Orsobia, who afterwards married Pamphylus the son of Ægimius), took the dead body of Hyrnetho and conveyed it to the place which is now called Hyrnethium.”
Book 5 · Chapter 17
- rivals with Melanion “And there are Melanion and Neotheus and Phalareus and Argeus and Iphiclus ready for the race”
- rivals with Neotheus “And there are Melanion and Neotheus and Phalareus and Argeus and Iphiclus ready for the race”
- rivals with Phalareus “And there are Melanion and Neotheus and Phalareus and Argeus and Iphiclus ready for the race”
- rivals with Iphiclus “And there are Melanion and Neotheus and Phalareus and Argeus and Iphiclus ready for the race”
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