Argia (mythology)
Argia /ɑːrˈdʒaɪə/, Argea /ɑːrˈdʒiːə/, or Argeia (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεία) is a name borne by four minor characters in Greek mythology. These are:
- Argia of Argos, daughter of king Adrastus of Argos and Amphithea, daughter of Pronax. She married Polynices, son of Oedipus and bore him three sons: Thersander, Adrastus and Timeas.[1]
- Argia, according to Hyginus, was an Oceanid nymph mother of Phoroneus, by her brother Inachus. She may also have been the mother (by Inachus) of Io.[2][3][4]
- Argia, wife of Polybus and mother of Argus (the builder of the ship Argo from the story of Jason and the Argonauts).[5][6]
- Argia, daughter of king Autesion of Thebes. She married Aristodemus and became the mother of twins, Eurysthenes and Procles, the ancestors of the two royal houses of Sparta.[7]
- Argeia, was also an epithet of the Greek goddess Hera derived from Argos, the principal seat of her worship.
Notes
- Hyginus, Fabulae 69
- Hyginus, Fabulae 145
- Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
- Hyginus, Fabulae 143
- Patricia Turner, Charles Russell Coulter, Dictionary of Ancient Deities (2001), p. 67.
- Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- Herodotus, The Histories 6
References
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.
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