being subject to strict scrutiny in one's actions to an invasive, distressing degree.
The monstrous entity has been either directly included or indirectly alluded to a wide variety of works influenced
by Greco-Roman thought over the past several centuries.
Drawing of an image from a 5the century BC Athenian red figure vase depicting Hermes slaying the giant Argus
Panoptes. Note the eyes covering Argus's body, lo as a cow stands in the background.
whose epithet, "Panoptes", "all seeing", led to his being described with multiple, often one hundred , eyes. The
epithet Panoptes was applied to the Titan of the sun , Hellios, and taken up as epithet by Zeus, Zeus Panoptes.
"In a way", "Walter Burkert observes, "the power and order of Argos the city are embodied in Argus the neatherd,
Lord of the herd and Lord of the land, whose name itself is the 'name of the land'.
The epithet Panoptes, reflecting his mythic role, set by Hedra as a very effective watchman of lo, was described in a fragment of a lost poem Aigimios, attributed to Hesiod.
And a watcher upon her, great and strong Argus, who with four
eyes looks every way. And the goddess stirred in him unwearying
strength; sleep never fell upon his eyes; but he kept sure watch
always.