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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[]

  1. Hyginus, Fabulae.145.CXLV
  2. 2.0 2.1 Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae, 143. CXLIII
  4. Hyginus, Fabulae, 69. LXIX
  5. Hyginus, Fabulae, 70. LXX
  6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.20.5
  7. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library 1.9.13
  8. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library, 3.6.1
  9. Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, fragment 99a
  10. Patricia Turner, Charles Russell Coulter, Dictionary of Ancient Deities (2001), p. 67.
  11. Herodotus, History of Herodotus, book 6
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