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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