Proteus, while he lived, was King here, ruling the whole of Aigyptos from his palace on the island of Pharos. "This is Aigyptos (Egypt) here flows the virgin river, the lovely Neilos (Nile), who brings down melted snow to slake the soil of the Aigyptian plain with the moisture heaven denies. "Phokos (Phocus) in his lordly might, whom divine Psamatheia (Psamathe) bore beside the crested wave."Įuripides, Helen 11 ff (trans. "But of the daughters of Nereus, the old man of the sea, one, Psamathe, shining among goddesses, joined to Aiakos (Aeacus) in love through golden Aphrodite, bore him Phokos (Phocus)." there were born in the barren sea daughters greatly beautiful even among goddesses. "To Nereus and to Doris of the lovely hair, daughter of Okeanos (Oceanus). Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
EIDO, THEOKLYMENOS (by Proteus) (Euripides Helen 1) PHOKOS (by Aiakos) (Hesiod Theogony 1003, Apollodorus 3.158, Pindar Nemean Ode 5, Antoninus Liberalis 38, Ovid Metamorphoses 11.348) NEREUS (Apollodorus 3.158, Euripides Helen 1, Antoninus Liberalis 38, Ovid Metamorphoses 11.348) OFFSPRING
Psamathe's name means "Sand-Goddess" from the Greek words psammos (sand) and theia (goddess). Psamathe sent a giant wolf to avenge Phokos by harrassing the flocks of Peleus but he managed to assuage her wrath with proper sacrifices. The boy was his father's favourite and his half-brothers Peleus and Telamon grew jealous and murdered him. She tried to escape his grasp by transforming herself into a seal but he refused to release his hold and so she conceded, bearing him a son named Phokos (Phocus) "the Seal". Psamathe was seduced by the Aiginetan king Aiakos (Aeacus) who ambushed her on the beach. PSAMATHE was the Nereid goddess of sand and the wife of Proteus, herder of seals. Sand-Goddess Psamathe, Athenian red-figure dinos C5th B.C., Martin von Wagner Museum
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