Argia (mythology)
Argia or Argeia is a name borne by four minor characters in Greek mythology. These are:
- 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]
- Argea (sometimes reported as Argia), 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]
- Argeia (sometimes reported as Argia), the wife of Polybus and mother of Argus, the builder of the ship Argo from the story of Jason and the Argonauts.[10][2]
- 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.[11]
References
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae.145.CXLV
- ^ a b Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 143. CXLIII
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 69. LXIX
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 70. LXX
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.20.5
- ^ Apollodorus, Library 1.9.13
- ^ Apollodorus, Library, 3.6.1
- ^ Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, fragment 99a
- ^ Patricia Turner, Charles Russell Coulter, Dictionary of Ancient Deities (2001), p. 67.
- ^ Herodotus, History of Herodotus, book 6