Proteus

Family: Egyptian · Role: king of Egypt · First appears: Euripides, Helen — Scene 1

Life events

Proteus married Psamathe after she left the bed of Aeacus.(Euripides, Helen — Scene 1 · 📍 Pharos)
- With: Psamathe
- “But Proteus, while he lived, of these domains Was lord, he in the isle of Pharos dwelt, King of all Ægypt; for his wife he gained One of the nymphs who haunt the briny deep, Fair Psamathe, after she left the bed Of Æacus;”
Mercury carried Helen to Proteus' house so she could preserve Menelaus' marriage bed.(Euripides, Helen — Scene 1 · 📍 Pharos)
- With: Hermes Helen Menelaus
- “But Mercury, receiving me in folds Of air, and covering with a cloud (for Jove Was not unmindful of me), in this house Of royal Proteus, who of all mankind Was in his judgment the most virtuous, placed me, That undefiled I might preserve the bed Of Menelaus.”
Proteus has died, and his son now rules Egypt.(Euripides, Helen — Scene 3 · 📍 Egypt)
- “To him belongs This tomb; his son is ruler of this land.”

married with Psamathe “But Proteus, while he lived, of these domains Was lord, he in the isle of Pharos dwelt, King of all Ægypt; for his wife he gained One of the nymphs who haunt the briny deep, Fair Psamathe, after she left the bed Of Æacus;”
child: Theoclymenus “To him two children, one of them a son Called Theoclymenus”
child: Theonoe “To him two children, one of them a son Called Theoclymenus, because his life Is passed in duteous homage to the gods; A daughter also of majestic mien, Her mother’s darling, in her infant years (Eidothea called by her enraptured sire): But when the blooming maid became mature For nuptial joys, Theonoe was the name They gave her;”

protégé: Helen (Helen resides beneath the roofs of Proteus’s royal house.) “Proteus here resides; This land is Egypt. ... Beneath these roofs Jove’s daughter Helen dwells.”
enemies with Menelaus “He’s not within; but to the Greeks he bears The greatest enmity.”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.