File:Hermes Io Argus.jpg

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English: Drawing of an image from a 5th century BCE Athenian red figure vase depicting Hermes slaying the giant Argus Panoptes. Note the eyes covering Argus' body.
Deutsch: Zeichnung nach einer griechischen Vase: Hermes tötet den Argos in Gegenwart des Zeus .
Attisch rotfiguriger Stamnos des Argos-Malers, der nach dieser Vase benannt wurde (Beazley, ARV² 288,1). Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Source http://www.minervaclassics.com/Hermes_Io_Argos_Roscher.jpg, "Ausführliches Lexikon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie", vol. 2.1, 1890, col. 279-280
Author Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher

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The slaying of Argus Panoptes, with a bull in the background.

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