Argos
Place · slug: argos
Also: Argolid pasture, Argolid, Dorian muster lands, Tiryns, divided Argolid
- Zeus and Io
Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive (cow; Argus; gadfly; Egypt; Epaphus); Aeschylean tragic enrichment
- Hermes Kills Argus (Argeiphontes)
Olympian gods / Argive · Apollodorean Argive exploit (Hermes as Argus-slayer); Aeschylean / Ovidian scenic enrichment labeled where Roman
- The Proetides: Madness and Melampus’s Cure
Olympian gods / Argive — Hera or Dionysus; Melampus cross-link · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* (Proetides; Melampus’s bargain for Argos)
- Hera and Poseidon: The Contest for Argos
Olympian gods / Argive foundation · Pausanian Argive (divine contest; river-gods as judges)
- Acrisius, Danaë, and the Bronze Chamber: Conception of Perseus
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Argive oracle; Zeus as golden rain)
- The Chest Cast into the Sea: Danaë and Perseus on Seriphos
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (Seriphean landing; Dictys as rescuer)
- Return to Argos and Larissa: Death of Acrisius by the Discus
Heroes — Perseus · Apollodorean (+ Pausanian Argive enrichment; exchange of kingdoms)
- Madness of Heracles: Murder of the Children (Apollodorean, before the Labors)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Hera-sent madness in Thebes *before* service to Eurystheus; Megara’s sons killed; purification then Delphi)
- Oracle and the Beginning of Service to Eurystheus
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Delphic command; twelve years at Tiryns; labors as path to immortality)
- First Labor: The Nemean Lion
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (invulnerable lion; strangling; Molorchus at Cleonae; skin as armor)
- After the Labors: Iphitus’s Murder and Sale to Omphale
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (labors complete; Eurytus and Iole; murder of Iphitus; Delphic sentence of servitude; Hermes sells Heracles to Omphale of Lydia)
- Sack of Oechalia and the Taking of Iole (Apollodorus)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (revenge on Eurytus; city sacked; Iole taken as captive concubine; children of Eurytus slain)
- Bellerophon: Anteia’s False Accusation, Proetus, Iobates, and the Chimera
Heroes — Bellerophon · Homeric / Apollodorean (Potiphar’s-wife pattern; sealed tokens; Chimera slain)
- Oedipus at Colonus: Arrival, Death, and Heroic Passing
Theban · Attic tragic — Sophocles *Oedipus at Colonus* (+ Apollodorean notice)
- Conflict of Eteocles and Polynices; Exile of Polynices
Theban · Apollodorean / tragic (*Phoenissae*, *OC*, *Seven* backstory)
- The Seven Against Thebes: March and Battle
Theban · Aeschylean / Apollodorean (seven champions; seven gates)
- The Epigoni: The Next Generation’s War on Thebes
Theban · Apollodorean / epic cycle (*Epigoni* tradition)
- Amphiaraus Swallowed by the Earth
Theban — Seven Against Thebes sequel (personal fate of the seer) · Apollodorean / Pindaric (reluctant march; chasm; hero-oracle)
- Alcmaeon, Eriphyle, and the Necklace of Harmonia
Theban — Epigoni aftermath / Harmonia’s heirloom curse · Apollodorean (matricide; purification; Callirrhoe; death)
- Stheneboea’s Suicide after Bellerophon’s Rejection (Euripides)
Heroes — Bellerophon aftermath / tragic heroine · Euripidean (lost *Stheneboea*; reconstructed from fragments and hypothesis)
- Adrastus of Argos: Kingship, Arion, and Survival
Heroes — Theban / Argive (Seven Against Thebes) · Apollodorean / Pausanian / tragic
- Capaneus: Blasphemy and the Thunderbolt
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Aeschylean / Euripidean / Apollodorean
- Tydeus and Melanippus: Brains, Athena, and Denied Immortality
Heroes — Theban / Seven Against Thebes · Apollodorean / cyclic / scholiastic
- Polynices and Argia (Argeia): Marriage at Argos
Heroes — Theban / Argive alliance · Apollodorean / tragic / cyclic (Adrastus’s daughters; lion and boar)
- Diomedes after Thebes: Epigonus and Argive King
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni / Argive · Apollodorean / Homeric — Epigonus who becomes Trojan-war Argive leader
- Death of Aegialeus in the Epigoni War
Heroes — Theban / Epigoni · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic
- Eurystheus Hides in the Bronze Jar
Heroes — Heracles / labors aftermath delivery · Apollodorean / pictorial classical tradition — Eurystheus cowers in a jar when Heracles brings live monsters
- Copreus: Herald of Eurystheus
Heroes — Heracles / labor administration · Homeric / Apollodorean — Copreus as intermediary after Eurystheus’s fright
- Perseus, Megapenthes, and the Founding of Mycenae
Heroes — Perseus aftermath / Argive–Mycenaean kingship · Apollodorean / Pausanian — kingdom exchange with Megapenthes; Perseus founds Mycenae
- The Embassy to Achilles
Trojan · Homeric — *Iliad* 9 (with Book 8 as immediate cause)
- Glaucus and Diomedes: Guest-Friendship and Armor Exchange (*Iliad* 6)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Lycian–Argive link · Homeric (*Iliad* 6)
- Phoenix’s Speech in the Embassy (*Iliad* 9)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Phoenix’s Meleager paradeigma within Book 9
- Theoclymenus Prophesies the Suitors’ Doom (*Odyssey*)
Trojan — Odyssey / return to Ithaca · Homeric — Melampodid seer; bird-omen and hall vision
- Phoenix’s Meleager Paradeigma (*Iliad* 9)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Embassy to Achilles · Homeric — Meleager’s wrath as warning paradeigma inside Phoenix’s speech
- Melampus the Seer
Local and lesser — Argive / Amythaonid seers · Apollodorean / Hesiodic *Catalogue* tradition (serpents; cattle of Phylacus; Proetides)
- Amymone and Poseidon: The Lernaean Spring
Local and lesser — Argive / Danaid prelude · Apollodorean / Aeschylean satyr-play tradition (Amymone)
- Belus, Aegyptus, and Danaus: The Setup
Local and lesser — Argive / Io’s descendants · Apollodorean genealogical setup (before the Danaid murders)
- The Danaids: Murder of the Sons of Aegyptus
Local and lesser — Argive · Apollodorean (+ Aeschylean *Suppliants* frame; underworld punishment tradition)
- Lynceus and Hypermnestra: Survival and the Argive Line
Local and lesser — Argive succession · Apollodorean / tragic (*Danaid* trilogy aftermath); Pausanian cult notices
- The Danaids’ Punishment: Leaky Jars in the Underworld
Local and lesser — Argive / underworld punishment · Classical underworld tradition (lyric, tragic, and handbook) attached to the Danaid crime
- The Meleagrides: Sisters of Meleager Become Birds
Local and lesser — Calydonian aftermath / bird metamorphosis · Antoninus Liberalis (Greek) + Ovid-labeled Roman enrichment — mourning sisters turned into meleagrides (guinea-fowl)