Argos (disambiguation)

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Argos may refer to:

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[edit] City Name

[edit] Greece

  • Argos is a city in the northeast Peloponnese in Greece. It shares this name with several other smaller towns in Greece:
    • Argos (Kalymnos), a village on Kalymnos in the northern part of the Dodecanese
    • Argos (Kassos), a village on the island of Kassos in the southern part of the Dodecanese
    • Argos Amphilochicum, an ancient settlement in Aetolia
    • Argos Ippatum, an ancient settlement in Epirus
    • Argos Orestiko, a town in the southwest-central part of Kastoria
    • Argos Hippium, a Greek colony near the present Foggia, Italy.

[edit] Outside of Greece

[edit] In Greek mythology

  • Argus (Argos), the son of Zeus and Niobe; Zeus' first child by a mortal
  • Argos (dog), the hero Odysseus' faithful dog in Homer's Odyssey
  • Argus Panoptes, a hundred-eyed giant who guarded Io
  • Argos, the son of Jason and Medea
  • Argos, the shipwright who built the Argo, on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed

[edit] Other uses

  • ARGOS (satellite) P91-1 ARGOS or the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite, US Air Force research and development space mission
  • Argos (EGFR Inhibitor), an inhibitor of the Drosophila EGFR pathway that neutralizes Epidermal growth factor
  • Argos (retailer), a major UK catalogue retailer
  • Argos (Stargate), a fictional planet in the Stargate SG-1 universe
  • Argos Foundation, a charitable educational organization based in Florida
  • Argos Comunicación, a Mexican television and film company
  • Argos System, a satellite-based system for environmental data collection
  • Argos, the short name for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League
  • Argo (oceanography), a network of free floating temperature and salinity sensors.
  • Eddie Argos, the lead singer of English indie rock band Art Brut

[edit] See also

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