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Nest of tables ("quartetto", early 1800s) Nest of tables (also known as nested tables, nesting tables) is a set of few tables with progressively smaller heights and frames, so that they can be stacked when not in use. [1] A smaller table slides inside the frame of a larger one until it engages the edge of the back frame. [2] Typically a set ...
Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, [5] [13] whose cult her father Inachus was supposed to have introduced to Argos. [5] Zeus noticed Io, a mortal woman, and lusted after her. In the version of the myth told in Prometheus Bound she initially rejected Zeus' advances, until her father threw her out of his house on the advice of ...
Io is sometimes confused as the daughter of Inachus and Melia but she is the daughter of Inachus alone. [12] Io was born from Inachus' mouth. [ citation needed ] Aside from the Inachians of whom he was simply the back-formed eponym , his other children include Mycene , [ 13 ] the eponym of Mycenae , the spring nymph Amymone , Messeis , Hyperia ...
Io as a cow stands in the background. Argus or Argos Panoptes (Ancient Greek: Ἄργος Πανόπτης, "All-seeing Argos") is a many-eyed giant in Greek mythology. Known for his perpetual vigilance, he served the goddess Hera as a watchman. His most famous task was guarding Io, a priestess of Hera, whom Zeus had transformed into a heifer.
Inachos, the supposed son of Oceanos and Tethys, is affirmed to have been the founder of this kingdom.He married his sister Melissa, by whom he had two sons, Phoroneus and Aegialeus: he is supposed to be the father of Io, and therefore the Greeks are sometimes called "Inachoi" after him (see also the names of the Greeks).
Argus or Argeus (king of Argos), son of Megapenthes. [4] Argus (son of Arestor), builder of the ship Argo in the tale of the Argonauts. [5] Argus, eldest son of Phrixus [6] and Chalciope (Iophassa [7]), and husband of Perimele, daughter of Admetus and Alcestis. [8] By her, he became the father of Magnes, the father of Hymenaios. [9]
On his way back to Argos, Tydeus is ambushed by fifty Thebans, but kills all of these but Maeon (2.482–703). In Book 3, on returning to Argos, Tydeus urges an immediate attack of Thebes (3.324–364). Adrastus consults the seers Amphiaraus and Melampus who receive ill omens (3.440–551). The Argive people demand war (3.575–597).
Toggle the table of contents. Juno and Argus. 7 languages. ... Kölner Museums-Bulletin 2000/3, p. 39–43, Fig.7; Robert Floetemeyer, Delacroix' Bild des Menschen.