Some, for example, place the scene of the murder of Argus at Nemea (Lucian, Dial. But there are some slight modifications of the story in the different writers. 148, &c.) This is the common story, which appears to be very ancient, since Homer constantly applies the epithet of Argeiphontes (the slayer of Argus) to Hermes. which tormented Io, and persecuted her through the whole earth, until at length she found rest on the banks of the Nile. Hermes being guided by a bird (hierax, pikon), who was Zeus himself (Suid. But Hermes was commissioned by Zeus to deliver Io, and carry her off. Hera thereupon asked and obtained the cow from Zeus, and placed her under the care of Argus Panoptes, who tied her to an olive tree in the grove of Hera at Mycenae. Zeus loved Io, but on account of Hera's jealousy, he metamorphosed her into a white cow. 40.) She is commonly described as a daughter of Inachus, the founder of the worship of Hera at Argos, and by others as a daughter of Iasus or Peiren. The chronological tables of the priestesses of Hera at Argos placed Io at the head of the list of priestesses, under the name of Callirhoë, or Callithyia. The place to which the legends of lo belong, and where she was closely connected with the worship of Zeus and Hera, is Argos. The traditions about this heroine are so manifold, that it is impossible to give any general view of them without some classification we shall therefore give first the principal local traditions, next the wanderings of Io, as they are described by later writers, and lastly mention the various attempts to explain the stories about her.ġ. KEROESSA (by Zeus) (Stephanus of Byzantium "Byzantion") EPAPHOS (by Zeus) (Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 589, Aeschylus Suppliant Women 40 & 312, Apollodorus 2.5, Strabo 10.1.3, Aelian On Animals 11.10, Hyginus Fabulae 145, Ovid Metamorphoses 1.750, Nonnus Dionysiaca 3.257 & 32.65) IASOS (Apollodorus 2.5, Pausanias 2.16.1) INAKHOS (Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 589, Apollodorus 2.5, Callimachus Hymns 3.24, Nicaenetus Lyrcus Frag, Apollonius Rhodius Caunus Frag, Parthenius Love Romances 1, Pausanias 1.25.1, Herodotus 1.1.2, Diodorus Siculus 5.60.4, Aelian On Animals 11.10, Virgil Aeneid 7.791, Ovid Metamorphoses 1.590, Ovid Heroides 14.105, Propertius Elegies 1.3 & 2.33A, Valerius Flaccus 4.345, Nonnus Dionysiaca 3.257 & 32.65, Suidas "Io") Io was sometimes identified with the Egyptian goddess Isis and her son Epaphos with the sacred bull Apis. Io's descendants ruled Aigyptos and the East for many generations but later returned to Greece-Kadmos (Cadmus) founding the royal house of Thebes and Danaos (Danaus) that of Argos. Once there Zeus restored her form with a touch of the hand and she gave birth to their son Epaphos.
The stinging insect drove the cow-girl mad forcing her to wander miles across the expanses of Europe and Asia to eventually reach Aigyptos (Egypt).
Zeus sent Hermes to slay the warden but Hera soon retaliated by inflicing the heifer-shaped Io with a gadfly. She then appointed the hundred-eyed giant Argos Panoptes as its guard. However the goddess was not so easily fooled and requested the animal as a gift. When Hera suddenly interrupted their tryst, Zeus transformed the maiden into a white heifer. IO was an Argive princess and Naiad-nymph who was loved by the god Zeus. Moon ( iô Argive dialect) Io received in Egypt by Isis and the river-god Nile, Greco-Roman fresco from Pompeii C1st B.C., Naples National Archaeological Museum
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