Argus
Family: Greek mythology · Role: father of Pirasus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 17
In Book 2, Chapter 17, Argus is named as Pirasus’s father. Pirasus made the oldest statue of Hera, which was placed at Tiryns and later conveyed by the Argives to Hera’s temple.
In Book 2, Chapter 25, Argus is described as the son of Zeus and father of Tiryns; in Chapter 26, the Argives and Hesiod’s The Great Eœæ are cited as naming him the father of Epidaurus. Chapter 34 connects him to Phoroneus as his daughter’s son, through whom the kingdom of Argos came to Argus. In Book 3, Chapter 4, Argus is identified as the son of Niobe.
Relationship record
Life events
- The oldest statue of Hera was made by Pirasus and later conveyed from Tiryns to her temple.(Book 2 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Tiryns)
- With: Pirasus
- “the oldest statue of Hera was made of wild pear tree, and was placed at Tiryns by Pirasus the son of Argus, and the Argives when they took Tiryns conveyed it to the temple of Hera”
Book 2 · Chapter 17
- child: Pirasus “Pirasus the son of Argus”
Book 2 · Chapter 25
- child: Tiryns (Argus is Tiryns's father.) “And they say the hero Tiryns, from whom the city got its name, was the son of Argus the son of Zeus.”
- parent: Zeus (Zeus is Argus's father.) “And they say the hero Tiryns, from whom the city got its name, was the son of Argus the son of Zeus.”
Book 2 · Chapter 26
- child: Epidaurus (This is the Argive tradition.) “but according to the opinion of the Argives, and the poem of Hesiod called The Great Eœæ, the father of Epidaurus was Argus the son of Zeus.”
- parent: Zeus “the father of Epidaurus was Argus the son of Zeus.”
Book 2 · Chapter 34
- elder kin: Phoroneus (Phoroneus is Argus's maternal grandfather.) “the kingdom of Argos would not have come to Argus the daughter’s son of Phoroneus”
- with Phoroneus (Phoroneus is identified as Argus's maternal grandfather.) “the kingdom of Argos would not have come to Argus the daughter’s son of Phoroneus”
Book 3 · Chapter 4
- parent: Niobe “which was sacred to Argus the son of Niobe.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.