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 * ...

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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 Phoroneus ...

for mythological characters named Argus **

Argus (king of Argos) In Greek mythology, Argus (; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος ''Argos'') was the king and eponym of Argos. Family He was a son of Zeus and Niobe, daughter of Phoroneus, and was possibly the brother of Pelasgus. Argus married either Evadne, the daughte ...

, son of Zeus (or Phoroneus) and Niobe **

Argus (son of Arestor) In Greek mythology, Argus (; Ancient Greek: Ἄργος ''Argos'') was the builder and eponym of the ship ''Argo'', and consequently one of the Argonauts; he was said to have constructed the ship under Athena's guidance. Argus was commissioned t ...

, builder of the ship ''Argo'' in the tale of the Argonauts **

Argus Panoptes Argus or Argos Panoptes ( grc, Ἄργος Πανόπτης, All-seeing Argos) is a many-eyed giant in Greek mythology. Mythology Argus Panoptes (), guardian of the heifer-nymph Io and son of Arestor and probably Mycene (in other version so ...

(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 Rhode ...

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 Acris ...

, 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 abs ...

, belonging to Odysseus **Argus or

Argeus (king of Argos) In Greek mythology, Argeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεύς) was a king of Argos of the Abantiad Dynasty, the son of Megapenthes, and possibly the father of Anaxagoras.Pausanias, 2.18.4 Note References * Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσ ...

, son of Megapenthes **Argus, one of

Actaeon Actaeon (; grc, Ἀκταίων ''Aktaion''), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero. Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron. He fell to ...

's dogs **Argus, a watchful

guardian Guardian usually refers to: * Legal guardian, a person with the authority and duty to care for the interests of another * ''The Guardian'', a British daily newspaper (The) Guardian(s) may also refer to: Places * Guardian, West Virginia, Unite ...

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

Argus (comics) The following is a list of fictional government agencies, comic book organizations that have been published by DC Comics and their imprints. A Agency The Agency was formed by Amanda Waller to serve as a small, quasi-independent branch of Task ...

, 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 ha ...

, 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 Chaos ...

'' 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 ente ...

'' *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 ''Rygar'' is a video game created by Tecmo in 1986 and originally released for arcades in Japan as . It is a side-scrolling platform game where the player assumes the role as the "Legendary Warrior", battling through a hostile landscape. The m ...

'', 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 Argus Brewery was a brewing company located on the south side of Chicago, at the edge of the Roseland community and the historic Pullman District. Founded in 2009, the brewery produced beer for multiple Chicago restaurants as well as its own sel ...

, a brewing company located in Chicago, Illinois *

Argus Corporation The Argus Corporation was an investment holding company based in Toronto, Ontario. During the 1960s and 1970s, it was the most powerful and best known conglomerate in Canada, at one time controlling the companies making up 10 percent of all shar ...

, a Canadian holding company *

Argus Media Argus (formerly known as Petroleum Argus Ltd) is an independent provider of price information, consultancy services, conferences, market data and business intelligence for the global petroleum, natural gas, electricity, emissions, biofuels, bi ...

, 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, Peloponnese, ...

, 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 Argus is an unincorporated community in the Searles Valley of the Mojave Desert, in northwestern San Bernardino County, California. Argus is east-northeast of Ridgecrest. Argus Cogeneration Plant Argus was home to the last coal fired circul ...

, 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, California, Darwin. The range forms the western boundary of Panamint Valley, and the northwestern boundary of Searles Valley. The Coso Range i ...

, a mountain range in Inyo County, California

Publishing

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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'', C ...

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 Argus Press was a British publishing company. It was acquired by British Electric Traction (BET) in 1966, and became the publishing arm of that company. It was the subject of one of the most hotly contested management buyouts of the 1980s when a m ...

, a British publishing company

United States

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Barre Montpelier Times Argus The ''Barre Montpelier Times Argus'' is a daily morning newspaper serving the capital region of Vermont. It was established in 1897. The newspaper claims that "80% of all adults in the Barre/Montpelier area read the Times Argus for local news, s ...

'', 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>Pear ...

'', a New Mexico newspaper *''

Livingston County Daily Press & Argus ''The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus'' is a daily newspaper published in Howell, Michigan and owned by Gannett. It covers news and sports within Livingston County and had offices in both Howell and Brighton. The Brighton office closed in D ...

'', 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 estab ...

'', 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 the ...

'', 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 Midwood High School is a high school located at 2839 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, administered by the New York City Department of Education. It has an enrollment of 3,938 students. Its H-shaped building, with six Ionic order, Ionic co ...

'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 Africa ...

'', 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-tea ...

, used in Australian rules football in the early 20th century *

Cape Argus Cycle Race The Cape Town Cycle Tour is an annual cycle race hosted in Cape Town, South Africa, usually long. It is the first event outside Europe to be included in the Union Cycliste Internationale's Golden Bike Series. South Africa hosts some of the l ...

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 pattern, a ...

, 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 of unclear relationships, and its contents and phylogeny are still in need of revision. The followi ...

(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 ''Scatophagus argus'', the spotted scat, butterfish, mia mia, spotted butterfish or tiger scat, is a species of fish in the scat family (biology), family Scatophagidae. It occurs in two basic color morph (zoology), morphs which are called green s ...

'', a species of fish of the family Scatophagidae *''

Terebra argus ''Terebra argus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Terebridae The Terebridae, commonly referred to as auger shells or auger snails, is a group or family of small to large predatory marine gastropods in the s ...

'', 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 sa ...

, an extension of the CLU language *

Argus - Audit Record Generation and Utilization System Argus is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word ''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 Niobe **Argus (son of Ar ...

, 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 reti ...

, 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 ...

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, a brand of camera *

Argus Coastal Monitoring {{more footnotes, date=July 2014 The use of video cameras to measure medium-term coastal processes was pioneered by Oregon State University in the late 1980s. Since the 1990s, OSU has collaborated with other universities and research institutes ar ...

, 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 business, ...

, 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 *

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 DESY. ...

, a particle physics experiment at DESY

Vehicles

Types

Argus (automobile) The Argus was a German automobile manufactured by Internationale Automobilzentrale KG Jeannin & Co from 1902 to 1904, then Argus Motoren, Argus Motoren-Gesellschaft Jeannin & Co from 1904 to 1906, and then Argus Motoren-Gesellschaft m.b.H. from Nov ...

, 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

* 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 The SS ''Argus'' was a steel-hulled Great Lakes freighter, that was constructed as the SS ''Lewis Woodruff'' by the American Ship Building Company, and was launched on 5 August 1905. Its original owner was the Gilchrist Transportation Company, ba ...

, a steel-hulled ship lost in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913

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