Meaning of Phorcys | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A primordial sea god, son of Pontus and Gaia, who by Ceto fathered numerous monsters including Echidna and the gorgons.
   Greek
2. Phorcys of Phrygia, a Phrygian ally of the King Priam of Troy during the Trojan War.
   Greek

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Examples

“Sophocles calls them^([the sirens]) the daughters of Phorcys.”

“But what of Phorcys as father of Persephone? Phorcys too has a role in Orphic genealogy, already known to Plato: he belongs to the Titan generation, together with Kronos and Rhea (Tim. 40e = Orph. fr. 24 Bernabé / 16 Kern).”

“Now, Phorcys, it is known, was a variation of Orcus, the equivalent of Hades in the Uranid pantheon. Phorcys belonged to the Atlantean group of deities or monsters, who was reputed to carry⟳ off men to the Inner world and keep⟳ them imprisoned there, which was possibly a folklore memory of subterranean temples for magic rites.”

“But the Phrygians are ſometimes mentioned as ſeparate from the Trojans: in the catalogue of the Trojan allies they are led from the distant Aſcania by Phorcys and Aſcanius, whose names are not derived from Greek, and we learn⟳ that ſome of the Phrygians spoke a different language.”

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