What happened to his eyes ?
Quoting Kaushik Saha ,
“He is Argus, the giant with a hundred eyes. According to Ovid, to commemorate her faithful watchman, Hera had the hundred eyes of Argus preserved forever, in a peacock’s tail” . Check other comments for interesting details .
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Here’s the interesting story behind the pic.
ARGOS PANOPTES was a hundred-eyed giant who lived in the region of Argolis in the Peloponnese.
Once when Zeus was consorting with the Nymph Io, his wife Hera arrived on the scene. The god quickly transformed his lover into a white heifer, but the goddess was not deceived. She demanded the animal for a gift and set Argos Panoptes as its guard.
Zeus sent Hermes to surreptitiously rescue his lover. The god first tried to lull the giant to sleep with his music, but failing that, slew him with his sword. It was from this endeavour that he earned his familiar title Argeiphontes (literally “the slayer of Argos”).
Hera rewarded Argos for his service by placing his hundred eyes on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock.
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hera placed the hundred eyes of argos on the peacock tail
His hundred eyes were out on the tail of the peacock by Hera, wife of Zeus
He is Argus, the giant with a hundred eyes. According to Ovid, to commemorate her faithful watchman, Hera had the hundred eyes of Argus preserved forever, in a peacock’s tail
Zeus had Argus killed by Hermes. Hermes, disguised as a shepherd, put all of Argus’s eyes to sleep(he had a hundred eyes) with spoken charms, then killed him by hitting him with a stone.
The picture is hermes slaying argus panoptes.
Argus panoptes the one hundred eyed giant from greek myth. His hundred eyes on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock
The story is
Once when Zeus was consorting with the Nymph Io, his wife Hera arrived on the scene. The god quickly transformed his lover into a white heifer, but the goddess was not deceived. She demanded the animal for a gift and set Argos Panoptes as its guard.
Zeus sent Hermes to surreptitiously rescue his lover. The god first tried to lull the giant to sleep with his music, but failing that, slew him with his sword. It was from this endeavour that he earned his familiar title Argeiphontes (literally “the slayer of Argos”).
Hera rewarded Argos for his service by placing his hundred eyes on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock.
ARGOS one of the giants in greek mythology.He had 100 eyes and was eventually killed by Hermes.Later Hera transformed those 100 eyes into the tail of her bird PEACOCK.
Argus “the all-seeing” Panoptes : giant with a hundred eyes
The eyes of Argus – After he was killed, Hera set them on the feathers of the peacock
ARGOS PANOPTES was a hundred-eyed giant who lived in the region of Argolis in the Peloponnese.
Once when Zeus was consorting with the Nymph Io, his wife Hera arrived on the scene. The god quickly transformed his lover into a white heifer, but the goddess was not deceived. She demanded the animal for a gift and set Argos Panoptes as its guard.
Zeus sent Hermes to surreptitiously rescue his lover. The god first tried to lull the giant to sleep with his music, but failing that, slew him with his sword. It was from this endeavour that he earned his familiar title Argeiphontes (literally “the slayer of Argos”).
Hera rewarded Argos for his service by placing his hundred eyes on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock.
( the pic is Hermes slaying Argus Panoptes, Athenian red figure
vase C5th B.C., Kunsthistoriche Museum, Vienna )
Once when Zeus was consorting with the Nymph Io, his wife Hera arrived on the scene. The god quickly transformed his lover into a white heifer, but the goddess was not deceived. She demanded the animal for a gift and set Argos Panoptes (who was a hundred-eyed giant who lived in the region of Argolis in the Peloponnese) as its guard.
Zeus sent Hermes to surreptitiously rescue his lover. The god first tried to lull the giant to sleep with his music, but failing that, slew him with his sword. It was from this endeavour that he earned his familiar title Argeiphontes (literally “the slayer of Argos”).
Hera rewarded Argos for his service by “placing his hundred eyes on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock”
Argus Panoptes – guardian of the heifer-nymph Io
His 100 eyes were preserved in Peacock’s Tail forever by Hera.
Argos. Hera’s faithful servant, on his death, she preservedhis eyes on the tail of a peacock.