#argos panoptes

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"Her [Hera's] peacocks, painted bright with Argus' eyes, lately slain."

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Khenbish x Argos (quick sketch)

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Many-eyed Argus, a faithful servant who could see in all directions. Despite this, Hermes would come to slay him.

While the common and more well known version is where Hermes puts his eyes to sleep, in some versions the god hurls stones at Argus until the giant fell dead. Regardless, Hermes decapitates him in the end.

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The Murder Trial of Hermes

"Anticlides, following Xanthos the Lydian, describes the gods' response to the first murder performed by one of their number: "When Hermes had killed Argos, the guardian of Io, at Zeus' behest, he was brought to trial. He was arraigned by Hera and the other gods, because he was the first god ever to be stained with death. Now when the gods were holding this trial, they were afraid of Zeus, for Hermes had acted on his orders. They wanted both to remove this stain from their presence, and to acquit the god of murder: agitated as they were, they threw their voting pebbles at Hermes, so that a pile of stones grew at his feet." (FGH 765 F 29; 140 F 19; Eust. 1809.38-43. The sources note that passers-by are required to throw an additional stone on the pile). Both ancient and modern readers treat the incident as aetiological in design: it can elucidate the term Hermaios lophos, a cairn of stones dedicated to Hermes (Schol ad. Od. 16.471), or might supply a fanciful origin for the practice of voting with pebbles at trials." Stoning and Sight: A Structural Equivalence in Greek Mythology by Deborah T. Steiner

I wonder what Hera felt when she was tossing the stone (and if she was aiming at Hermes' head)

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El Guardián de los Cien Ojos: La Leyenda de Argos Panoptes

El Guardián de los Cien Ojos: La Leyenda de Argos Panoptes

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ARGOS el GUARDIÁN de HERA. 👁️

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