{"id":1237,"date":"2019-10-21T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T08:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/?post_type=myths&p=1237"},"modified":"2021-12-23T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T08:37:28","slug":"argus-panoptes","status":"publish","type":"myths","link":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/myths\/argus-panoptes\/","title":{"rendered":"Argus Panoptes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is the Greek mythological creature Argus Panoptes?<\/h3>\n

In ancient Greek mythology, Argus Panoptes is a giant who had many eyes. Some stories described him as having 100 eyes and it even created a saying. The saying “the eyes of Argus” refers to being watched closely or followed by the eyes. Panoptes also refers to “all-seeing” which describes this Greek creature perfectly. He also had a superhuman strength which he used to defeat other creatures.<\/p>\n

In the stories, Argus was a servant for the goddess Hera<\/a>, who was the wife of Zeus<\/a>. In one task, Argus was sent to kill a monster with snake-like legs named Echidna<\/a>. The giant Argus was able to kill this monster while it was asleep inside its cave. In the other stories, Argus killed a bull that was attacking Arcadia<\/a>. He also killed a creature known as a Satyr that was committing crimes against people.<\/p>\n

In another important task, Hera ordered Argus to guard a cow named Io. The cow was originally a human woman who was one of Zeus’ lovers. Hera became upset that Io had been with her husband so she had her turned into a cow. She asked Zeus to give her the cow as a gift and he did. Hera then told Argus to guard the cow, so he chained her to a tree. The giant guarded the cow near where Hera was.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Argus, Zeus sent Hermes<\/a>, the messenger of the Gods, to save Io for him. Hermes told the 100-eyed giant different stories and played an instrument called the panpipe. Hermes also used his wand or staff called a caduceus to put Argus to sleep. Eventually, Argus fell asleep and Hermes was able to kill the giant.<\/p>\n

Once Argus had been killed, all of his eyes were taken and put onto the tail of the peacock. From this, the peacock became a symbol of the goddess Hera as she recognized Argus for his service to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who is the Greek mythological creature Argus Panoptes? In ancient Greek mythology, Argus Panoptes is a giant who had many eyes. Some stories described him as having 100 eyes and it even created a saying. The saying “the eyes of Argus” refers to being watched closely or followed by the eyes. Panoptes also refers to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/myths\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/myths"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/myths"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/myths\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/myths\/1237\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greekgodsandgoddesses.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}