Argus is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word ''
Argos
Argos most often refers to:
* Argos, Peloponnese, a city in Argolis, Greece
** Ancient Argos, the ancient city
* Argos (retailer), a catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Argos or ARGOS may also refer to:
Businesses
...
''. It may refer to:
Greek mythology
* See
Argus (Greek myth)
In Greek mythology, Argus or Argos ( /ˈɑːrɡəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος ''Argos'') may refer to the following personages
* Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes.
* Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneu ...
for mythological characters named Argus
**
Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe
**
Argus (son of Arestor), builder of the ship ''Argo'' in the tale of the Argonauts
**
Argus Panoptes (Argus "All-Eyes"), a giant with a hundred eyes
**Argus, the eldest son of
Phrixus
In Greek mythology Phrixus (; also spelt Phryxus; el, Φρίξος, ''Phrixos'' means "standing on end, bristling") was the son of Athamas, king of Boeotia, and Nephele (a goddess of clouds). He was the twin brother of Helle and the father of ...
and Chalciope
**Argus, the son of
Phineus
In Greek mythology, Phineus (; Ancient Greek: Φινεύς, ) or Phineas, was a king of Salmydessus in Thrace and seer, who appears in accounts of the Argonauts' voyage. Some accounts make him a king in PaphlagoniaScholia on Apollonius of Rhod ...
and
Danaë
In Greek mythology, Danaë (, ; ; , ) was an Argive princess and mother of the hero Perseus by Zeus. She was credited with founding the city of Ardea in Latium during the Bronze Age.
Family
Danae was the daughter and only child of King Acri ...
, in a variant of the myth
**Argus or
Argos (dog)
In Homer's ''Odyssey'', Argos (; grc-gre, Ἄργος) is Odysseus' faithful dog.
Background
After ten years of fighting in Troy, followed by ten more years struggling to get home to Ithaca, Odysseus finally arrives at his homeland. In his ab ...
, belonging to Odysseus
**Argus or
Argeus (king of Argos), son of Megapenthes
**Argus, one of
Actaeon's dogs
**Argus, a watchful
guardian
Arts and entertainment
Fictional entities
*
Argus (comics), in the DC Comics Universe
*
Argus (''Mortal Kombat''), a deity
*
ARGUS (''Splinter Cell''), a military contractor
*
A.R.G.U.S.
A.R.G.U.S. is a government organization in DC Comics. A.R.G.U.S. first appeared in ''Justice League'' vol. 2 #7 and was created by Geoff Johns and Gene Ha.
Headed by Amanda Waller, A.R.G.U.S. is typically depicted as a parent organization for the ...
, a government agency in the DC Universe
*
Argus Filch
The following fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the '' Harry Potter'' books written by J. K. Rowling.
The staff and their positions
Teachers and staff members
The following teachers and staff members do not h ...
, in the ''Harry Potter'' series
*Argus, a planet in the ''
Warcraft
''Warcraft'' is a franchise of video games, novels, and other media created by Blizzard Entertainment. The series is made up of five core games: '' Warcraft: Orcs & Humans'', '' Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness'', '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chao ...
'' franchise
*Argus, a hero in ''
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang''
*Argus, in the video game ''
Shadow of the Colossus
''Shadow of the Colossus'' is a 2005 action-adventure game developed by Japan Studio and Team Ico, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It takes place in a fantasy setting and follows Wander, a young man who ...
''
*KNRB-0 Argus, a weapons platform in the game
''Vanquish''
*''The Manhattan Argus'', a newspaper in the film ''
The Hudsucker Proxy
''The Hudsucker Proxy'' is a 1994 screwball comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by the Coen brothers. Sam Raimi co-wrote the script and served as second unit director. The film stars Tim Robbins as a naïve but ambitious business scho ...
''
Games
*
''Argus'' (video game), a 1986 game by NMK
*''
Argus no Senshi'', the original Japanese title for the arcade game ''Rygar''
Music
*
''Argus'' (album), a 1972 album by Wishbone Ash
*"The Argus", a song by Ween from the album ''
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
''
Television
*
"Argus" (''30 Rock''), a 2010 episode
*
''Argus'' (TV series), a Norwegian TV debate series that aired between 1993 and 1994
Businesses
*
Argus (camera company)
Argus was an American maker of cameras and photographic products, founded in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Argus originated as a subsidiary of the International Radio Corporation (IRC), founded by Charles Verschoor. Its best-known product was the ...
, a camera manufacturer
*
Argus Brewery, a brewing company located in Chicago, Illinois
*
Argus Corporation, a Canadian holding company
*
Argus Media, a business information company
*
Argos (retailer)
Argos Limited, trading as Argos, is a catalogue retailer operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, acquired by Sainsbury's supermarket chain in 2016. It was established in November 1972 and is named after the Greek city of Argos. The compan ...
, a British catalogue retailer
Places
Iran
*
Argus, Iran, a village in Kerman Province
Spain
*
Argos (river), a river in the region of Murcia
United States
*
Argus, California, an unincorporated community
*
Argus, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
*
Argus Range
The Argus Range is a mountain range located in Inyo County, California, southeast of the town of Darwin. The range forms the western boundary of Panamint Valley, and the northwestern boundary of Searles Valley. The Coso Range is located to the w ...
, a mountain range in Inyo County, California
Publishing
:''See
The Argus (disambiguation) ''The Argus'' may refer to:
Publications Australia
* ''The Argus'' (Melbourne), a defunct newspaper in Melbourne, Australia
* ''The Northern Argus'', the original name of ''The Evening News'' (Rockhampton), Queensland
* '' The Northern Argus'', ...
for publications named "The Argus"''
United Kingdom
*
''The Argus'' (Brighton), a newspaper serving Brighton and Hove, England; a member of the Newsquest Media Group
*''
South Wales Argus
The ''South Wales Argus'' is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Newport, South Wales. ''The Argus'' is distributed in Newport, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, and Torfaen.
History
The paper was founded as the ''South Wales Arg ...
'', published in Newport, South Wales; a member of the Newsquest Media Group
*
Argus Press, a British publishing company
United States
*''
Barre Montpelier Times Argus'', a daily morning newspaper serving the capital region of Vermont
*''
Carlsbad Current-Argus
The ''Carlsbad Current-Argus'' is a newspaper in Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States.Jeff Sumner, ''Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media: New Jersey - Wyoming- Canada'', Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Group, 2001, p. 121/ref>Pearc ...
'', a New Mexico newspaper
*''
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus'', a newspaper that covers Livingston County, Michigan
*''
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus
''The Dispatch–Argus'' is a daily morning newspaper in East Moline, Illinois and circulated primarily throughout the Illinois side of the Quad Cities — Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County, but also for sale in retail esta ...
'', American newspaper that covers the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa
*''
Argus Leader
The ''Argus Leader'' is the daily newspaper of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Owned by Gannett, it was the state's largest newspaper by total circulation until 2021 when it was surpassed by the ''Rapid City Journal'', according to statistics from t ...
'', American newspaper that covers Sioux Falls, South Dakota
*''Argus'', a newspaper in Albany, New York, which long functioned as the organ of the
Albany Regency
The Albany Regency was a group of politicians who controlled the New York state government between 1822 and 1838. Originally called the "Holy Alliance", it was instituted by Martin Van Buren, who remained its dominating spirit for many years. The ...
*''Argus'',
Midwood High School
, motto_translation = The True, the Good, and the Beautiful
, address = 2839 Bedford Avenue
, city = Brooklyn
, state = New York
, zipcode = 11210
, country ...
's school newspaper
Elsewhere
*
''The Argus'' (Dundalk), a newspaper serving Dundalk, Ireland; a member of the Independent News & Media group also known as Independent.ie
*
''The Argus'' (Melbourne), former Australian newspaper of record, established in 1846 and closed in 1957
*''
Cape Argus
The ''Cape Argus'' is a daily newspaper co-founded in 1857 by Saul Solomon and published by Sekunjalo in Cape Town, South Africa. It is commonly referred to as ''The Argus''.
Although not the first English-language newspaper in South Afric ...
'', a newspaper printed in Cape Town, South Africa
*''
Weekend Argus'', a newspaper in South Africa, owned by Independent News & Media
*''
Goondiwindi Argus'', a newspaper in Goondiwindi, Queensland, Australia, owned by Fairfax Media
Sport
*
Argus finals system
The Argus finals systems were a set of related systems of end-of-season championship playoff tournament used commonly in Australian rules football competitions in the early part of the 20th century. The systems generally comprised a simple four-te ...
, used in Australian rules football in the early 20th century
*
Cape Argus Cycle Race in South Africa, colloquially referred to as "The Argus"
Science and technology
Biology
*
Argus (bird)
An argus, or argus pheasant, is a member of a clade in the tribe Pavonini of the family Phasianidae, containing two species of bird that are closely related to peafowl. It has hundreds or thousands of tiny white spots on its plumage patter ...
, pheasants from the genera ''Argusianus'' and ''Rheinartia''
*Argus butterflies, including:
**
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...
, e.g., ''Erebia'', ''Junonia''
**
Polyommatinae
Polyommatinae, the blues, are a diverse subfamily of gossamer-winged butterflies (family Lycaenidae).
This subfamily was long used to assign taxa
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more ...
(Lycaenidae), e.g., as ''Aricia'', ''Plebeius'', ''Polyommatus''
**
Theclinae
The subfamily Theclinae is a group of butterflies, often referred to as hairstreaks, with some species instead known as elfins or by other names. The group is part of the family Lycaenidae, the "gossamer-winged butterflies". There are many tropi ...
(Lycaenidae): the invalid genus ''Argus'' (described by Gerhard, 1850), now in ''Satyrium''
*
Argus monitor
The yellow-spotted monitor (''Varanus panoptes''), also known as the Argus monitor, is a monitor lizard found in northern and western regions of Australia and southern New Guinea.
Taxonomy
The first description of the species was provided in a ...
(''Varanus panoptes''), a species of lizard
*''
Scatophagus argus'', a species of fish of the family Scatophagidae
*''
Terebra argus'', a mollusk of the family Terebridae
Electronics and computing
*
Argus (monitoring software)
Argus is a systems and network monitoring application.
It is designed to monitor the status of network services, servers, and other network hardware. It will send alerts when it detects problems.
It is open-source software originally written ent ...
, a network and systems monitoring application
*
Argus (programming language)
Argus is a programming language created at MIT by Barbara Liskov between 1982 and 1988, in collaboration with Maurice Herlihy, Paul Johnson, Robert Scheifler, and William Weihl. It is an extension of the CLU language, and utilizes most of the s ...
, an extension of the CLU language
*
Argus - Audit Record Generation and Utilization System
Argus is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word ''Argos (disambiguation), Argos''. It may refer to:
Greek mythology
* See Argus (Greek myth) for mythological characters named Argus
**Argus (king of Argos), son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and ...
, a network auditing system
*
Argus retinal prosthesis
Argus retinal prosthesis, also known as a bionic eye, is an electronic retinal implant manufactured by the American company Second Sight Medical Products. It is used as a visual prosthesis to improve the vision of people with severe cases of re ...
, a bionic eye implant manufactured by Second Sight
*
Ferranti Argus
Ferranti's Argus computers were a line of industrial control computers offered from the 1960s into the 1980s. Originally designed for a military role, a re-packaged Argus was the first digital computer to be used to directly control an entire fact ...
, a line of industrial control computers
*
ARGUS-IS
The ARGUS-IS, or the Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System, is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project contracted to BAE Systems.
ARGUS is an advanced camera system that uses hundreds of cellphon ...
, a surveillance system produced by BAE Systems
*
Honeywell ARGUS
ARGUS, an acronym for Automatic Routine Generating and Updating System, was an Assembly Language devised in the late 1950s by Honeywell for their Honeywell 800 and 1800 computers.
As with other Assembly Languages, each line of ARGUS was copied on ...
, a low-level computer programming language
*Oracle Argus Safety, a pharmacovigilance system from
Oracle Health Sciences
An oracle is a person or wikt:agency, agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophecy, prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by Deity, deities. As such, it is a form of divination ...
Other uses in science and technology
*
Argus (camera company)
Argus was an American maker of cameras and photographic products, founded in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Argus originated as a subsidiary of the International Radio Corporation (IRC), founded by Charles Verschoor. Its best-known product was the ...
, a brand of camera
*
Argus Coastal Monitoring, a video system for observing coastal processes and related phenomena
*
ARGUS distribution
In physics, the ARGUS distribution, named after the particle physics experiment ARGUS, is the probability distribution of the reconstructed invariant mass of a decayed particle candidate in continuum background.
Definition
The probability dens ...
, a probability distribution used in particle physics
*
Argus Motoren
''Argus Motoren'' was a German manufacturing firm known for their series of small inverted-V engines and the Argus As 014 pulsejet for the V-1 flying bomb.
History
Started in Berlin in 1906 as a subsidiary of Henri Jeannin's automobile busines ...
, a German aircraft engine manufacturing firm
*
ARGUS reactor, a nuclear reactor at the Russian Kurchatov Institute
*
Operation Argus
Operation Argus was a series of United States low-yield, high-altitude nuclear weapons tests and missile tests secretly conducted from 27 August to 9 September 1958 over the South Atlantic Ocean. The tests were performed by the Defense Nucle ...
, a 1958 US military effort to create orbital electron belts using atomic bombs
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ARGUS (experiment)
ARGUS (A Russian-German-United States-Swedish Collaboration; later joined by Canada and the former Yugoslavia) was a particle physics experiment that ran at the electron– positron collider ring DORIS II at the German national laboratory DES ...
, a particle physics experiment at DESY
Vehicles
Types
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Argus (automobile)
The Argus was a German automobile manufactured by Internationale Automobilzentrale KG Jeannin & Co from 1902 to 1904, then Argus Motoren-Gesellschaft Jeannin & Co from 1904 to 1906, and then Argus Motoren-Gesellschaft m.b.H. from November 1906 to ...
, a German automobile manufactured between 1901 and 1909
*Fairchild Argus, a British version of the
C-61 Forwarder
The Fairchild Model 24, also called the Fairchild Model 24 Argus and UC-61 Forwarder, is a four-seat, single-engine monoplane light transport aircraft designed by the Fairchild Aviation Corporation in the 1930s. It was adopted by the United Sta ...
transport aircraft
Named vessels
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CP-107 ''Argus'', a Royal Canadian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft
*
French brig ''Argus'' (1800), a French naval ship that took part in the Battle of Trafalgar
*
HMS ''Argus'', the name of many ships in the British Royal Navy
*
RFA ''Argus'' (A135), a 1981 Primary Casualty Receiving Ship in Britain's Royal Fleet Auxiliary
*
USS ''Argus'', various ships of the United States Navy
*
SS Argus, a steel-hulled ship lost in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
See also
*
The Argus (disambiguation) ''The Argus'' may refer to:
Publications Australia
* ''The Argus'' (Melbourne), a defunct newspaper in Melbourne, Australia
* ''The Northern Argus'', the original name of ''The Evening News'' (Rockhampton), Queensland
* '' The Northern Argus'', ...
, the name of several newspapers
*
Argos (disambiguation)
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