Editing Argos, Peloponnese (section)

==Mythology==
The [[mythological king]]s of Argos are (in order): [[Inachus]], [[Phoroneus]], [[Apis, king of Argos|Apis]], [[Argus (king of Argos)|Argus]], [[Criasus]], ([[Phorbas (king of Argos)|Phorbas]], [[Triopas (king of Argos)|Triopas]] is sometimes between Criasus and Iasus in some sources), [[Iasus (king of Argos)|Iasus]], [[Agenor of Argos|Agenor]], ([[Crotopus]] and [[Sthenelus]] was between Agenor and Gelanor in some sources), [[Gelanor]] AKA [[Pelasgus#Son of Sthenelas|Pelasgus]], [[Danaus]], [[Lynceus]], [[Abas (son of Lynceus)|Abas]], [[Proetus (king of Argos and Tiryns)|Proetus]], [[Acrisius]], [[Perseus]], [[Megapenthes (son of Proetus)|Megapenthes]], ([[Argeus (king of Argos)|Argeus]] and [[Anaxagoras (mythology)|Anaxagoras]] comes after in some sources).<ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheca]] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Library:book=2:chapter=1&highlight=inachus 2.1],[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D1 2.2.1], and [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D4 2.4]</ref>
An alternative version supplied by [[Tatian]] of the original 17 consecutive kings of Argos includes [[Apis (Greek mythology)|Apis]], Argios, Kriasos and [[Phorbas]] between Argus and Triopas, explaining the apparent unrelation of Triopas to Argus.<ref>James Cowles Prichard : ''An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology''. 1819. p. 85</ref>

The city of Argos was believed to be the birthplace of the mythological character [[Perseus]], the son of the god [[Zeus]] and [[Danaë]], who was the daughter of the king of Argos, [[Acrisius]].

After the original 17 kings of Argos, there were three kings ruling Argos at the same time (see [[Anaxagoras (mythology)|Anaxagoras]]),<ref>Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.18.4</ref> one descended from [[Bias (mythology)|Bias]], one from [[Melampus]], and one from [[Anaxagoras (mythology)|Anaxagoras]]. Melampus was succeeded by his son [[Mantius]], then [[Oicles]], and [[Amphiaraus]], and his house of Melampus lasted down to the brothers [[Alcmaeon (mythology)|Alcmaeon]] and [[Amphilochus (brother of Alcmaeon)|Amphilochus]].

[[Anaxagoras (mythology)|Anaxagoras]] was succeeded by his son [[Alector]], and then [[Iphis#King of Argos|Iphis]]. Iphis left his kingdom to his nephew [[Sthenelus]], the son of his brother [[Capaneus]].

[[Bias (mythology)|Bias]] was succeeded by his son [[Talaus]], and then by his son [[Adrastus]] who, with Amphiaraus, commanded the disastrous war of the [[Seven against Thebes]]. [[Adrastus]] bequeathed the kingdom to his son, [[Aegialeus (king of Argos)|Aegialeus]], who was subsequently killed in the war of the [[Epigoni]]. [[Diomedes]], grandson of Adrastus through his son-in-law Tydeus and daughter [[Deipyle]], replaced Aegialeus and was King of Argos during the Trojan war. This house lasted longer than those of [[Anaxagoras (mythology)|Anaxagoras]] and [[Melampus]], and eventually the kingdom was reunited under its last member, [[Cyanippus]], son of Aegialeus, soon after the exile of Diomedes.<ref>Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.18.5</ref>