Argia (disambiguation)

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Argia or Argea may refer to:

Contents 1 In Mythology 2 People 3 Animals 4 In the Basque Country 5 References

[edit] In Mythology

• Argia, one of the Oceanids. She was the mother of Phoroneus by her brother Inachus. She may also have been the mother {by Inachus) of Io. ^[1][2][3]
• Argia (Argea), 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 ^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]}
• Argia, mother, by Polybus, of Argus, one of the Argonauts. ^[10]
• Argia, daughter of king Autesion of Thebes, Greece. She married Aristodemus and became the mother of twins, Eurysthenes and Procles, the ancestors of the two royal houses of Sparta. ^[11]

[edit] People

Argia Sbolenfi, one of the pseudonyms of Italian poety Olindo Guerrini.

[edit] Animals

• Argia, a genus of damselflies

[edit] In the Basque Country

• Argia is the oldest magazine published in basque language.

[edit] References

1. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae.145.CXLV [1]
2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface [2]
3. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 143. CXLIII [3]
4. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 69. LXIX. [4]
5. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 70. LXX. [5]
6. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.20.5 [6]
7. ^ Apollodorus, Library 1.9.13 [7]
8. ^ Apollodorus, Library, 3.6.1 [8]
9. ^ Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, fragment 99a, [9]
10. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface [10]
11. ^ Herodotus, History of Herodotus, book 6 [11]