Argia (daughter of Adrastus)

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"Argia" in the Bibliothèque nationale de France

In Greek mythology, Argia Template:IPAc-en or Argea Template:IPAc-en (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεία Argeia) was a daughter of King Adrastus of Argos, and of Amphithea, daughter of Pronax. She was married to Polynices, the exiled king of Thebes, and bore him three sons: Thersander, Adrastus, and Timeas.<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae 69 - 70</ref><ref>Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.20.5</ref><ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.13 & 3.6.1</ref><ref>Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 99a</ref>

Mythology

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Woodcut illustration of Argia and Polynices (1473)

When Oedipus had died at Thebes, Argia came with others to the funeral of Oedipus, her father-in-law.<ref>Scholiast on Homer, Il. xxiii. 679; Hesiod. Catalogue of Women Fragment 24.</ref>

Middle Age tradition

She is remembered in De Mulieribus Claris, a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in 1361Template:Endash62. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature.<ref name="Brown_xi">Template:Cite book</ref>

In Dante's Inferno, she is found in Limbo.

See also

• Phoenician Women
• Hyginus, who in his Fabulae (Latin) calls her Argia.
• Robert Graves in his popular The Greek Myths (106c) prefers the spelling Aegeia.
• Euripides in The Phoenician Women and Suppliants, who mentions the wedding without giving her name.

Notes

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References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Statius, Thebais IV.187–213