Arestor

The father of Argus Panoptes, the guardian of Io, who is therefore called Arestorides.1 According to Pausanias,2 Arestor was the husband of Mycene, the daughter of Inachus, from whom the town of Mycenae derived its name.

References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 1.3; Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica i, 112; Ovid. Metamorphoses i, 624.
  2. Description of Greece ii, 16.3

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.