2023年9月6日 · Phorcys can occasionally be found in ancient works of art, including vase paintings and mosaics. He was often shown as human from the waist up but with the scaly lower body of a fish. Artists sometimes gave him a beard, though a few later representations show the “old man of the sea,” paradoxically, as a beardless and youthful god.

2023年9月4日 · Ceto married her brother Phorcys. Their children—collectively known as the “Phorcides” (after their father)—were some of the most dreaded monsters of Greek mythology. Among these offspring were the eternally gray Graeae , the stony Gorgons , the snake monster Echidna , and the gigantic serpent who guarded the Garden of the Hesperides ...

2023年3月8日 · Their parents were the sea gods Phorcys and Ceto, and they were favored by the sea god Poseidon, who was a lover of Medusa. Iconography The Gorgons were a popular subject in ancient Greek art by the sixth century BCE.

2023年1月18日 · Hesiod, Theogony 270ff; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 798ff; Apollodorus, Library 2.4.2; in Hyginus, Fabulae pref.9, the Gorgons are the offspring of Ceto and Gorgon rather than Ceto and Phorcys (and thus the half-sisters of the Graeae). ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 333–35. ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 295–97 (though the reading of these lines is disputed ...

2023年3月22日 · Echidna was a female serpent-monster of Greek mythology, the daughter of the sea gods Phorcys and Ceto. She was usually represented with the head and torso of a woman and the tail of a serpent. Echidna mated with another monster, Typhoeus, and together they spawned a new generation of monsters, including Cerberus, the Chimera, the Hydra, and Orthus

2023年3月11日 · Medusa, the daughter of the sea gods Phorcys and Ceto, was the most feared of the Gorgons. It was said that anyone who looked directly at her was immediately turned to stone. Medusa was often depicted as a terrifying winged female with snakes instead of hair.

2023年3月9日 · Pontus, born to Gaia at the beginning of the cosmos, was the Greek primordial god who personified the sea. Together with his mother Gaia, he fathered many ancient sea deities, including Nereus, Phorcys, and Ceto.

2023年3月8日 · Other attributes—Nereus’ gentleness, wisdom, and prophetic ability—are more distinctively Greek, linking Nereus to similar deities such as Proteus and Phorcys. In Greek mythology, Nereus was born when the cosmos was still young. His mother Gaia was one of the first beings to come into existence, while his father Pontus was one of Gaia’s ...

2023年9月20日 · Scylla was a multi-headed, hybrid monster who haunted a narrow strait opposite the whirlpool Charybdis. With her darting heads and sharp teeth, Scylla would pick off unwary sea creatures or sailors who passed too close.

2023年3月10日 · The Titans were the first children of the primordial Greek deities Uranus and Gaia. Two of these Titans, Cronus and Rhea, became the parents of the original generation of Olympians, who overthrew the Titans, just as the Titans had overthrown Uranus before them.