Eit innleg utan tittel, ganske enkelt fordi det ikkje handlar om så mykje spennande.
Heite! To dagar igjen til eksamen. Møkk. For eit slet. Blir trøytt.
Veit du kva bakgrunnen for uttrykket "argus-auge" er?
Veit du kva bakgrunnen for uttrykket "argus-auge" er?
15. Johannessen at lørdag, juni 11, 2005
3 Kommentarar:
Nei, fortell.
Det kjem av ein mytologisk skikkelse kalla, ikkje uventa, Argus. Han hadde eit auge han kika intenst med.
Gjorde litt research:
There are five figures in Greek mythology named Argus:
1. Argus Panoptes, (Argus "all eyes") was a giant with a hundred eyes. He was also the nymph Io's brother. He was thus a very effective watchman, as only a few of the eyes would sleep at a time; there were always eyes still awake. Argus was Hera's servant. His great service to the Olympian pantheon was to slay the chthonic serpent-legged monster Echidna as she slept in her cave (Homer, Iliad ii.783; Hesiod, Theogony, 295ff; Apollodorus, ii.i.2). Hera's last task for Argus was to guard a white heifer from Zeus. She charged him to "Tether this cow safely to an olive-tree at Nemea". Hera knew that the heifer was in reality Io, one of the many nymphs Zeus was coupling with to establish a new order.
To free Io, Zeus had Argus slain by Hermes. Hermes, disguised as a shepherd, first put all of Argus's eyes asleep with boring stories. To commemorate her faithful watchman, Hera had the hundred eyes of Argus preserved forever, in a peacock's tail (Ovid I, 625).
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