Psamathe

Family: Gods · Role: nymph and wife of Proteus · First appears: Euripides, Helen — Scene 1

Life events

• Proteus married Psamathe after she left the bed of Aeacus.(Euripides, Helen — Scene 1 · 📍 Pharos)
  • With: Proteus
  • “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;”

Euripides, Helen — Scene 1

• married with Proteus “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;”
• with Aeacus (Psamathe had previously shared Aeacus's bed.) “Fair Psamathe, after she left the bed Of Æacus”
• child: Theoclymenus “To him two children, one of them a son Called Theoclymenus”
• child: Theonoe “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;”
• married with Aeacus “Fair Psamathe, after she left the bed Of Æacus;”

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