later on became the queen of Argos. Eurydice was the daughter of King Lacedaemon and Queen Sparta, the legendary founders of Sparta and thus sister to...

king of Sparta and the founder of Amyclae in central Laconia. Amyclas was the son of King Lacedemon and Queen Sparta, and brother of Queen Eurydice of Argos...

Eurynome. Eurydice, a Spartan princess as the daughter of King Lacedaemon. She was the mother of Danae by her husband King Acrisius of Argos. Eurydice, daughter...

'ill-judgment') was a king of Argos. He was the grandfather of the famous Greek demi-god Perseus. Acrisius was the son of Abas and Aglaea (or Ocalea,...

include the nymph Taygete (mother of Lacedaemon), Sparta (the daughter of Eurotas) and Eurydice of Argos (grandmother of Perseus). Later the Achaeans, associated...

king of Argos, succeeding Danaus on the throne. Lynceus was named as a descendant of Belus through his father Aegyptus, who was the twin brother of Danaus...

wife Eurydice from the underworld, and his death at the hands of the maenads of Dionysus, who got tired of his mourning for his late wife Eurydice. As...

after the "Argives", a term commonly used by Homer for the Greek people of Argos. Diodorus Siculus reported that some thought the name was derived from...

child of King Acrisius of Argos by his wife Queen Eurydice or Aganippe. In some accounts, she had a sister, Evarete, wife of King Oenomaus of Pisa and...

descendant of Lelex. The latter's great-granddaughter Sparta gave birth to a daughter named Eurydice who had married Acrisius, the king of Argos. Eurydice became...

daughter of Alcaeus and Astydamia. Other accounts say her mother was Lysidice, the daughter of Pelops and Hippodameia, or Eurydice, the daughter of Pelops...

son of Pheres, and the husband of Eurydice (or Amphithea) by whom he was the father of Opheltes. In the earliest account, Lycurgus was a priest of Nemean...

was the father of his heir Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius of Argos. In a rare version of the myth, Taygete was the wife of Lacedaemon and...

himself. He was also the father of Apis, who may have also ruled Argos (according to Tatiānus). He was worshipped in Argos with an eternal fire that was...

Greek: Ἴναχος) was the first king of Argos after whom a river was called Inachus River, that drains the western margin of the Argive plain. For modern scholars...

Argeus of Argos Argia Argileonis Argiope Argius Argive vase painting Argo Argonautica Argonautica Orphica Argonauts Argos Argos (dog) Argos panoply Argos Theater...

Leucane. Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, whose cult her father Inachus was supposed to have introduced to Argos. Zeus noticed Io, a mortal...

Προῖτος, romanized: Proîtos), the son of Abas, was a king of Argos and Tiryns. Proetus' father was Abas, son of the last surviving Aegyptiad Lynceus and...

Ἄβας) was the twelfth king of Argos. He was the great-grandfather of Perseus, and the founder of the towns Abae and Argos Pelasgikon. Hera favoured Abas...

of Libya. His myth is a foundation legend of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean cities of the Peloponnesus. In Homer's Iliad, "Danaans" ("tribe of Danaus")...

origins to Argos, of Peloponnese in Southern Greece, hence the name Argeads or Argives. Initially rulers of the tribe of the same name, by the time of Philip...

Talaus, king of Argos, and leader of the Seven against Thebes (see above). This Adrastus may be the same as the father of Eurydice, wife of Ilus (above)...

Lacedaemon, Sparta became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice, wife of King Acrisius of Argos, and the grandmother of Hyacinthus, who was loved by Apollo...

bribing the Argives during his invasion of Greece, but ultimately failed to do this. King Acrisius of Argos had only one child, a daughter named Danaë...

Macedonian kings of the Argead dynasty were descendants of Temenus, king of Argos, and could therefore claim the mythical Heracles as one of their ancestors...

name or epithet of several figures in Greek mythology: Aganippe, a naiad of the spring Aganippe. Aganippe, wife of King Acrisius of Argos, and according...

was father of five sons: Erginus, Stratius, Arrhon, Pyleus, Azeus, and two daughters: Eurydice[citation needed] and Axia. At a festival of Poseidon at...

(briefly king of Cyrene), the son of Demetrius Poliorcetes and his third wife, Ptolemaïs, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and Eurydice, daughter of Antipater...

if to attack him and then killed himself. When Creon's wife, Eurydice, was informed of their deaths, she took her own life. Polynices appears in Hojang...

of how, exiled from Thebes, he went to Argos and married Adrastus' daughter. He tells the same story already told in The Suppliants, coming to Argos late...