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King of Mycenae and son of Agamemnon of the Trojan War. Orestes gained the throne of Argos and Sparta upon the death of Cylarabes. Tisamenos. Son of Orestes. He was the final king of Argos, Mycenae and Sparta before the kingdom was conquered by the Heracleidae.
Aegialeus (king of Argos) Agenor of Argos; Ajax the Great; Alector; Amphiaraus; Amphilochus I of Argos; Anaxagoras (mythology) Apis (Greek mythology) Apis of Argos; Argeus of Argos; Argus (king of Argos)
The king of Argos slew Thymbraeus, two sons of Merops, and Agastrophus. Hector soon marked the havoc Diomedes and Odysseus were making, and approached them. Diomedes immediately threw his spear at Hector, aiming for his head.
According to Hellanicus of Lesbos, Phoroneus had at least three sons: Agenor, Jasus (Iasus) and Pelasgus. [1]According to the mythographer Apollodorus, Iasus was the son of Argus and Ismene (daughter of Asopus) and thus brother of Argus Panoptes. [2]
The death of the king almost invariably triggered dynastic disputes and often a war of succession between members of the Argead family, leading to political and economic instability. [21] These included: Six-year Macedonian interregnum (399–393 BCE), after the death of king Archelaus, between Orestes, Aeropus II, Amyntas II and Pausanias [22]
He was a son of Zeus and Niobe, daughter of Phoroneus, and was possibly the brother of Pelasgus. [1] Argus married either Evadne, the daughter of Strymon and Neaera, or Peitho the Oceanid, [2] and had by her six sons: Criasus, Ecbasus, [3] Iasus, Peiranthus (or Peiras, Peirasus, Peiren), Epidaurus and Tiryns (said by Pausanias to be the namesake of the city Tiryns). [4]
In Greek mythology, Talaus / ˈ t æ l i ə s / (Ancient Greek: Ταλαός) was the king of Argos and one of the Argonauts. [1] He was the son of Bias (or Perialces) and Pero.His wife was Lysimache, daughter of Abas (also known as Eurynome, Lysippe [2] or Lysianassa, daughter of Polybus [3]).
The city of Argos was believed to be the birthplace of the mythological character Perseus, the son of the god Zeus and Danaë, who was the daughter of the king of Argos, Acrisius. After the original 17 kings of Argos, there were three kings ruling Argos at the same time (see Anaxagoras ), [ 33 ] one descended from Bias , one from Melampus , and ...