Argia /ɑːrˈdʒaɪə/, Argea /ɑːrˈdʒiːə/, 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.

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

• Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-99630-4. Online version at Harvard University Press.
• Bane, Theresa, Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology, McFarland, 2013. ISBN 9780786471119.
• Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. ISBN 9780874365818, 0874365813.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.
• Turner, Patricia, Charles Russell Coulter, Dictionary of Ancient Deities. 2001.