Argos (disambiguation)
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Argos may refer to:
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[edit] City Name
[edit] Greece
- Argos was a city in the northeast Peloponnese in Greece. It shares this name with several other smaller towns in Greece:
- Argos (Kalymnos), a village on Kalymnos in the northern part of the Dodecanese
- Argos (Kassos), a village on the island of Kassos in the southern part of the Dodecanese
- Argos Amphilochicum, an ancient settlement in Aetolia
- Argos Ippatum, an ancient settlement in Epirus
- Argos Orestiko, a town in the southwest-central part of Kastoria
- Argos Hippium, a Greek colony near the present Foggia, Italy.
[edit] Outside of Greece
[edit] In Greek mythology
- Argus (Argos), the son of Zeus and Niobe; Zeus' first child by a mortal
- Argos (dog), the hero Odysseus' faithful dog in Homer's Odyssey
- Argus Panoptes, a hundred-eyed giant who guarded Io
- Argos, the son of Jason and Medea
- Argos, the shipwright who built the Argo, on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed
[edit] Other uses
- ARGOS (satellite) P91-1 ARGOS or the Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite, US Air Force research and development space mission.
- Argos (EGFR Inhibitor) is an inhibitor of the Drosophila EGFR pathway that neutralizes Epidermal growth factor
- Argos (retailer), a major UK catalogue retailer
- Argos (Stargate), a fictional planet in the Stargate SG-1 universe
- Argos Foundation, a charitable educational organization based in Florida
- Argos Comunicación, a Mexican television and film company
- Argos System, a satellite-based system for environmental data collection
- Argos, the journal of the Canberra branch of the Australian Skeptics
- Argos, the short name for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League
- ARGOS, the short name the Agricultural Research Group on Sustainability
- Argos is a cement company group in Colombia
- Argos is a prison without walls in Erik Matti's Rounin TV series
- Argo floats are a network of free floating temperature and salinity sensors.
- Eddie Argos, the lead singer of English Indie Rock band Art Brut.
[edit] See also
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