Comments on: Daily Question # 462

By: Max

Max — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:11:02 +0000

Argos. Hera’s faithful servant, on his death, she preservedhis eyes on the tail of a peacock.

By: Subin

Subin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:29:46 +0000

Argus Panoptes – guardian of the heifer-nymph Io

His 100 eyes were preserved in Peacock’s Tail forever by Hera.

By: Manu Sathian

Manu Sathian — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:09:20 +0000

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”

By: yadhu

yadhu — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:39:57 +0000

ARGOS PANOPTES was a hundred-eyed giant who lived in the region of Argolis in the Peloponnese.

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 )

By: Deepthi Mani

Deepthi Mani — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:03:03 +0000

The eyes of Argus – After he was killed, Hera set them on the feathers of the peacock

By: Rithwik

Rithwik — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:35:23 +0000

Argus “the all-seeing” Panoptes : giant with a hundred eyes

By: drvijaynath

drvijaynath — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:23:23 +0000

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.

By: rajith ravi

rajith ravi — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:49:07 +0000

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

Hera rewarded Argos for his service by placing his hundred eyes on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock.

By: balakrishnan

balakrishnan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:09:17 +0000

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.

By: Kaushik Saha

Kaushik Saha — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:25:55 +0000

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