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Phorcys
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(PHORCUS, PHORCYN), in Greek mythology, son of Pontus (Sea) and Gaea (Earth), father of the Graeae, the Gorgons, Scylla, and Ladon (the dragon that guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides). In Homer (Odyssey, xiii. 96) he is an aged sea-deity, after whom a harbour in Ithaca was named. According to Varro (quoted by Servius in Aeneid, v. 824) Phorcys was a king of Corsica and Sardinia, who, having been defeated by King Atlas in a naval engagement in the course of which he was drowned, was subsequently worshipped as a marine divinity.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Phorcys'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/phorcys.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Phorcys'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/phorcys.html. 1910.
