Argeu

This name derives from the Ancient Greek “Άrgos (Ἄργος) Argeía (Ἀργεία) Argeîos (Ᾰ̓ργεῖος),” meaning “glistening, shining, shiny.” In Greek mythology, Argus was the king and eponym of Argos. He was a son of Zeus and Niobe, daughter of Phoroneus, and is possibly the brother of Pelasgus. Argus Panoptes, a guardian of the heifer-nymph Io and son of Arestor, was a primordial giant whose epithet, “Panoptes,” “all-seeing,” led to his being described with multiple, often one hundred, eyes. In Greek mythology, Argea (Argia, Argeia) was a daughter of King Adrastus of Argos, and Amphithea, daughter of Pronax. Argos is a city and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit.