Ecbasus

{{Short description|Son of Argus in Greek mythology}}

In Greek mythology, Ecbasus ({{langx|el|Έκβασος}}) was the son of Argus, the king and eponym of Argos (and son of Zeus and Niobe). According to the mythographer Apollodorus, his mother was Evadne, the daughter of the river god Strymon, and he was the sibling of Criasus, Epidaurus, and Piras.Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.1.2 2.1.2]; cf. Hyginus, Fabulae [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=206#145 145]. Criasus succeeded their father to the throne of Argos. According to a scholion on Euripides, however, his mother was the Oceanid Peitho.Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 1116, on Orestes 932{{primary source inline|date=February 2024}}

Ecbasus was the father of Agenor, himself the father of Argus Panoptes (the giant who guarded Io).Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.1.2 2.1.2]; Hyginus, Fabulae [http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=206#145 145]. According to the historian Charax, Ecbasus fathered Arestor, whose son, Pelasgus, settled in the region of Arcadia (which was originally known as Pelasgia).Brill's New Pauly, [https://referenceworks-brillonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/arestor-e133870 s.v. Arestor]; BNJ, 103 F15 [= Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#P508.18 Parrasia]].