Argos

Also known as: Spectre of Argos · Family: Argos · Role: earth-born herdsman · First appears: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 3

Life events

• Hera's jealousy drives Io into prolonged wandering while Argos relentlessly pursues her.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 3)
  • With: Io Hera
  • “And I with famished and unseemly bounds Rush madly, driven by Hera's jealous craft.”
• Argos is suddenly deprived of life while pursuing Io.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 4)
  • “And him a sudden and unlooked-for doom Deprived of life.”
• Hera set Argos, the all-seeing earth-born, to guard Io.(Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 2)
  • With: Hera Io
  • “She o'er the heifer set a guard all-seeing.”
• Hermes slew Argos, Hera’s all-seeing herdsman.(Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 2)
  • With: Hermes
  • “Argos, the earth-born, him whom Hermes slew.”

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 3

• enemies with Io “Spectre of Argos, thou, the earth-born one— Ah, keep him off, O Earth! I fear to look upon that herdsman dread, Him with ten thousand eyes: Ah lo! he cometh with his crafty look, Whom Earth refuses even dead to hold; But coming from beneath He hunts me miserable, And drives me famished o'er the sea-beach sand.”

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 4

• enemies with Io (Argos pursues Io in a hostile manner.) “And a giant herdsman, Argos, full rough of temper, followed me, With many an eye beholding, on my track:”
• with Io (Argos is Io's hostile pursuer.) “And a giant herdsman, Argos, full rough of temper, followed me, With many an eye beholding, on my track:”

Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 2

• enemies with Hermes “Argos, the earth-born, him whom Hermes slew.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.