Argo
The name Argo refers primarily to:
- Argo, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology
but has been used secondarily for:
Science
- Argo Navis, a constellation representing the mythological ship Argo
- Argo (oceanography), a science project to deploy 3,000 robotic oceanic probes to monitor Earth's oceans
Ships
- Argo (ship) an Indian ship that disappeared near Tasmania in 1814.
- Argo (1800) an American Schooner shipwrecked in Fiji.
- Argo (1853) first steamship to circumnavigate the earth.
- HMS Argo, the name of five ships of the Royal Navy
- M/V Argo, a research vessel used by the Scripps Oceanographic Research Institute, La Jolla, California, in 1967.
- Argo (submersible), an unmanned submersible used by Robert Ballard to discover the wreck of RMS Titanic
Vehicles
- Argo (automobile), a defunct American automobile company
- Argo Electric, an electric vehicle built from 1912–16, from Saginaw, Michigan.
- Argo (1863 – 1892), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives
- Argo, a six and eight-wheeled amphibious all-terrain vehicle
- Argo is a maker of racing cars
- ARGO, a project to develop a Driverless car, concluded in Italy 2001
Places
- Argo, Alabama
- Argo, an alternate name for the city of Summit, Illinois
- Argo Community High School in Summit, Illinois
- Argo, a place near Dongola in Sudan
Companies
- Argo Investments Ltd, an Australian Listed Investment Company
- Argo Records, a defunct Jazz label subsidiary of Chess Records, based in the United States
- Argo Records (UK), a defunct spoken word record label
- ARGO SpA, Italian company that manufactures or distributes agricultural equipment
- Argo Tea, chicago based Tea shop.
- Argo, a series of fashion shops throughout Britain
- Argo, Czech book publishing company
- ARGO (Analisi e ricerche geografiche sull'Oriente), a think tank on Central Asian and Middle Eastern security based in Rome
Computing
- Argo (web browser), a web browser developed in 1994 by Bert Bos, which used its own style sheets
- ArgoUML, an open source designing application
- Argo, the code name of Microsoft's Zune
Sports
- The Toronto Argonauts, a football team and rowing club in Toronto
Other
- Argo, a design of sounding rocket used in the 1958 Operation Argus, a test of atomic bomb explosions in the upper atmosphere; these rockets reached heights of 800 km
- Argo, an "auto regulating gas operated" system for semi-automatic firearms used by the firm Benelli
- Argo, the Boston Latin School newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts
- Argo, used as the name of a fake science-fiction film based on Lord of Light in a covert CIA rescue operation
- Argo, the George School literary magazine in Newtown, Pennsylvania
In fiction
- Argo, a fictional spaceship in Star Blazers, the American adaptation of the anime Space Battleship Yamato; corresponding to Yamato in the original
- Argo City, a fictional city on Krypton that is the birthplace of Supergirl
- Argo, a shuttlecraft/all-terrain vehicle in the Star Trek universe; it is stationed on the USS Enterprise E
- Argo, Xena's horse in Xena: Warrior Princess
- Argo the Almighty, is a fictional character who appeared in the Marvel Comics' MC2 series A-Next
- Argo (First Earth), an airship from the D.J. MacHale's First Earth universe
- Argo, The Wanderer's horse from the video game "Shadow of the Colossus"
See also
- Argus
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Argo (disambiguation)". Image Credit.
Extended Definition: Argo
Argo
In Greek mythology, the Argo was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcus to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The Argo was built by the shipwright Argus, and its crew were specially protected by the goddess Hera. The best source for the myth is the Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius.
According to a variety of sources of the legend, the Argo was said to have been planned or constructed with the help of Athena. According to other legends it contained in its prow a magical piece of timber from the sacred forest of Dodona, which could speak and render prophecies. After the successful journey, the Argo was consecrated to Poseidon in the Isthmus of Corinth. It was then translated into the sky and turned into the constellation of Argo Navis.[1]
Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, Pliny,[2] Philostephanus) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship. Generally it was imagined like a Greek warship, a galley, and authors hypothesized that it was the first ship of this type that had gone out on a high-sea voyage.[1]
Modern Usage
The Argo was the name of the starship in Star Blazers, the American translation of the animated Japanese science fiction series Space Battleship Yamato.
Notes
- a b This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. [1]
- Hist. Nat. 1.c.56
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Argo". Image Credit.
