Argus
Also known as: starry Argus · Family: Juno's household · Role: watchman and keeper · First appears: Fable 14
Life events
- Juno entrusts Io to Argus for guarded custody.(Fable14)
- Mercury kills Argus by cutting off his head.(Fable16)
- With: Mercury
- “There is no delay; he wounds him, as he nods, with his crooked sword, where the head is joined to the neck; and casts him, all blood-stained, from the rock”
- Juno places Argus’s eyes on the peacock’s feathers.(Fable16)
- With: Juno
- “The daughter of Saturn takes them, and places them on the feathers of her own bird, and she fills its tail with starry gems.”
- Argus is killed, prompting the peacocks’ newly colored plumage.(Fable22)
- “peacocks just as lately tinted, upon the killing of Argus”
Fable 14
- employer: Juno “The keeper appointed by Juno”
- ward: Io “she gave her to Argus, the son of Aristor, to be kept {by him}”
- parent: Aristor “Argus, the son of Aristor”
- with Mercury (Jupiter orders Mercury to kill Argus.) “orders him to put Argus to death”
Fable 16
- with Mercury (Mercury kills Argus.) “Mercury, having lulled Argus to sleep, cuts off his head, and Juno places his eyes in the peacock’s tail.”
- with Juno (Juno places Argus’s eyes in the peacock’s tail.) “Mercury, having lulled Argus to sleep, cuts off his head, and Juno places his eyes in the peacock’s tail.”
Fable 22
- with Juno (interaction) “peacocks just as lately tinted, upon the killing of Argus”
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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.