Figures in Greek mythology
Argia , Argea , or Argeia [ 1] (Ancient Greek : Ἀργεία , romanized : Argeía ) may refer to several figures in Greek mythology :
Argia, one of the 3,000 Oceanids , water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys .[ 2] She was the mother of Phoroneus , by her brother Inachus , a river-god of Argos .[ 3] Argeia may also have been the mother (by Inachus) of Io .[ 4]
Argia, wife of Polybus and mother of Argus .[ 5] The later was the builder of the ship Argo from the story of Jason and the Argonauts .[ 6] Others credited Danaus [ 7] or Arestor [ 8] to be this Argus' father.
Argia , an Argive princess as the daughter of King Adrastus and Amphithea , daughter of Pronax . She married Polynices , son of Oedipus and bore him three sons: Thersander ,[ 9] Adrastus and Timeas .
Argia, a Theban princess as the daughter of King Autesion . She married Aristodemus and became the mother of twins, Eurysthenes and Procles , the ancestors of the two royal houses of Sparta .[ 10]
Argeia, was also an epithet of the Greek goddess Hera derived from Argos , the principal seat of her worship.
^ Bell, p. 62.
^ Bane, p. 34; Hyginus , Fabulae Preface .
^ Hyginus , Fabulae 143 .
^ Hyginus , Fabulae 145 .
^ Hyginus , Fabulae 14.2 .
^ Turner and Coulter, p. 67.
^ Hyginus , Fabulae 14.5 .
^ Apollonius of Rhodes , Argonautica 1.111–112 .
^ Hyginus , Fabulae 69 .
^ Herodotus , 6.