Argeius

Argeius (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεῖος, but also sometimes Argeus) was one of the Elean deputies sent to the Persian Empire to co-operate with Pelopidas in 367 BCE on counteracting Spartan negotiation and attaching Artaxerxes II of Persia to the Theban cause.[1]

He is again mentioned by the writer Xenophon, in his account of the war between the Arcadians and Eleans in 365 , as one of the leaders of the democratic party at Elis.[2][3]

Others

Several other lesser-known people also bear this name:

• Argeius, a (probably mythical) youth who competed at the ancient Nemean Games and Isthmian Games, recorded in the poems of Bacchylides.[4][5]
• Argeuis, a sophist who taught at Pamphylia around the end of the 4th century. He is believed to have been a pupil of Libanius.[6][7]
• Argeius, a mythical centaur who was driven mad by the smell of wine and subsequently killed by the demigod Heracles while the latter was visiting his friend, the centaur Pholus, some time between his third and fourth labors.[8]
• Argeius, a son of the mythological king and queen of Pisa and 'master of horses' Hippodamia and her husband Pelops.
• Argeius, one of the mythological Niobids, according to the Scholiast on Euripides.[9]
• Argeius, son of Deiphontes, king of Argos, by his wife Hyrnetho.
• Argeius, a (mythological) king of Argos around 1600 BCE, and successor to Apis, king of Argos, according to Tatian.

Notes

1. Xenophon, Hellenica 7.1.33
2. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 15.77
3. Xenophon, Hellenica 7.4.15
4. Bacchylides (1967). The Poems and Fragments. Translated by Jebb, Richard Claverhouse. Georg Olms Verlag. pp. 187. ISBN 9783487417202. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
5. Bacchylides (1961). Parry, Adam; Fagles, Robert (eds.). Complete Poems. Translated by Fagles, Robert. Yale University Press. p. 107. ISBN 9780300075526. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
6. Hezser, Catherine (2001). Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism. 81. Mohr Siebeck. p. 106. ISBN 9783161475467. ISSN 0721-8753. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
7. Cribiore, Raffaella (2009). The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch. Princeton University Press. p. 291. ISBN 9781400827671. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
8. Bane, Theresa (2016). "Argeius". Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore. McFarland. p. 39. ISBN 9781476622682. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
9. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 159

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Elder, Edward (1870). "Argeius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 279.