Argus Panoptes

Argos (Greek Ἄργος, Male, Latin. Argus), also panoptes (Greek Πανόπτης, the all wedding ) was a huge monster with a hundred ( or many ) eyes all over his body so that he could look in all directions, especially since only one pair of eyes asleep at a given time.

Argos ' history

Echidna was loud Hesiod an immortal nymph; yet she was killed by Argos in his sleep. So Argos knew from his own experience, can be as deadly sleep. After Io, the lover of Zeus, had been turned into a cow by Zeus cautious, this was guarded on Heras command of Argos. Zeus succeeded but still, to copulate with her in form of a bull and so to witness the Epaphos: He sent Hermes, the Argeiphontes to steal ( the Argostöter ) to kill the Argos and Io. Hermes, who knew that his attentive eyes missed nothing, lulled him first with his flute playing, then killed him with a rock and beheaded him. His eyes shifted hundred Hera in the plumage of the peacock.

Argos had a son named Iasos, the king of the city of Argos. According to other stories, however, this had the Triopas to the Father. Even today, look suspicious contemporaries who want to see "everything ", " hawk " and refuse to tolerate those " flute ", which they are put to sleep.

The dog of Odysseus, Argos, was probably named in recognition of his special vigilance by the giants; or was this at the time of Homer, a conventional herding dog name.

Argos in art

Peter Paul Rubens painted the picture Juno and Argus. It shows how Hera ( Juno latin ) takes the eyes of the slain Argos itself.

Swell

• Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound.
• Aeschylus: The protection seekers.
• Ovid: Metamorphoses.