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* Proetus of Thebes, eponym of the Proetid Gates, and father of Galanthis.
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Proetus and Thebes
From Thebes, Dionysus went to Argos where all the women except the daughters of King Proetus joined in his worship.
Proetus and father
His father Abas, son of the last surviving Aegyptiad Lynceus and the Danaid Hypermnestra, had ruled over Argos and married Aglaea or Ocalea, who bore him twin sons, Proetus and Acrisius, who quarreled continually ever since they still were in the womb.
By his wife Proetus became the father of three daughters and a son Megapenthes.
* Proetus, son of Thersander, was the father of Maera who died a maiden.
* Proetus, a son of Nauplius I and father of Lernus.
His own sons were Haliartus and Coronus, eponyms of Haliartus and Coronea respectively, and also Proetus, himself father of Maera who was known to have died a maiden.
Paul's father was the first " National, Industrial, Commercial Communications, Foodstuffs, and Resources Director "” As his lengthy title suggests, Dr. George Proetus has almost complete control over the nation ’ s economy and was more powerful than the President of the United States.
Proetus and .
Proetus () was a mythical king of Argos and Tiryns.
In one tradition, the conflict was reiterated when Proetus seduced Acrisius ' daughter ( and his own niece ) Danae.
Proetus started out as king of Argos, and held the throne for about seventeen years, but Acrisius defeated and exiled him and he fled to King Jobates or Amphianax in Lycia, and married his daughter Antea or Stheneboea.
Jobates, thereupon, attempted to restore Proetus to his kingdom by armed force.
Melampus promised to cure them, if Proetus would give him one third of his kingdom.
As Proetus refused to accept these terms, the madness of his daughters not only increased, but was communicated to the other Argive women also, so that they murdered their own children and ran about in a state of frenzy.
Proetus then declared himself willing to listen to the proposal of Melampus ; but the latter now also demanded for his brother Bias an equal share of the kingdom of Argos.
Proetus consented and Melampus, having chosen the most robust among the young men, gave chase to the mad women, amid shouting and dancing, and drove them as far as Sicyon.
During this pursuit, Iphinoe, one of the daughters of Proetus, died, but the two others were cured by Melampus by means of purifications, and were then married to Melampus and Bias.
There was a tradition that Proetus had founded a sanctuary of Hera, between Sicyon and Titane, and one of Apollo at Sicyon.
In one account, Proetus had yet another daughter, Nyctaea, who fled from her own father's attempts of violation and was changed by Athena into an owl ; her story is a variant for that of Nyctimene.
When Bellerophon came to Proetus to be purified of a murder which he had committed, the wife of Proetus fell in love with him, and invited him to come to her: but, as Bellerophon refused to comply with her desire, she charged him before Proetus with having made improper proposals to her.
Proetus then sent Bellerophon to Iobates in Lycia, with a letter in which Iobates was desired to murder Bellerophon.
According to Ovid, Proetus ended up changed into stone by Perseus, the grandson of Acrisius ( who had eventually got expelled by Proetus ), upon being made by him to see the head of Medusa.
Later Proetus ' son, Megapenthes, exchanged kingdoms with Perseus.
Scholiasts on the Odyssey confound him with the Argive Proetus.
It is unclear whether Stephanus is referring to a son of Agenor named Proetus, or to the Argive Proetus as a descendant of Agenor.
Thebes and Gates
* Thebes, Egypt, Thebes of the Hundred Gates, one-time capital of the New Kingdom of Egypt
** Ancient Thebes ( Boeotia ), Thebes of the Seven Gates
Thebes and father
A chthonian symbol among the ancient Greeks, celery was said to have sprouted from the blood of Kadmilos, father of the Cabeiri, chthonian divinities celebrated in Samothrace, Lemnos and Thebes.
In Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex, while on the road to Thebes, Oedipus meets King Laius of Thebes who is unknown to him as his biological father.
In 338 BC, the Peloponnesian League was disbanded, when Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, formed the League of Corinth after defeating Thebes and Athens.
In Sophocles ' Oedipus the King, while on the road to Thebes, Oedipus meets King Laius of Thebes who is unknown to him as his biological father.
She placed the head on a stick and took it back to Thebes, but only realized whose head it was after meeting her father Cadmus.
In his search to figure out who killed Laius ( and thus end a plague on Thebes ), Oedipus discovered it was he who had killed the late king-his father.
The Oracle did not tell him he was son of the king and queen of Thebes, but instead informed him he was destined to murder his father and marry his mother.
For this transgression, according to Hyginus, Agave was exiled from Thebes and fled to Illyria to marry King Lycotherses, and then killed him in order to gain the city for her father Cadmus.
In the Iliad, he boasts that he captured the city of Thebes, while his father, fighting among the Seven Against Thebes, died attempting the same thing.
His father, Oedipus, was discovered to have killed his father and married his mother, and was expelled from Thebes, leaving his sons Eteocles and Polynices to rule.
Because of a curse put on them by their father, Oedipus, the sons, Polynices and Eteocles, did not share the rule peacefully and died as a result by killing each other in a battle for the control of Thebes.
His enraged comrade Sthenelus urges Diomedes to stand up to Agamemnon by responding that he has bested his father and avenged his death by conquering " Seven-gated " Thebes.
In Greek mythology, Hippomedon was one of the Seven Against Thebes and father of Polydorus.
By his wife Argia, daughter of King Autesion of Thebes, he was the father of twin Kings Eurysthenes and Procles, the ancestors of the two royal houses of Sparta.
Laodamas, son of Eteocles, inherited Thebes from his father.
At Thebes he formed part of a family triad with Mut as his mother and Amun his father.
The father who had adopted Khonsu was thought to be Amun, who had already been changed into a more significant god by the rise of Thebes, and had his wife changed to Mut.
Ismene tells her father that it is Creon's plan to come for him and bury him at the border of Thebes, without proper burial rites, so that the power which the oracle says his grave will have will not be granted to any other land.
Another example is the Greek legend of Oedipus, wherein Laius king of Thebes is told by the Delphic Oracle that if he and his wife had a son, he would eventually kill his own father and marry his own mother.
Oedipus would indeed eventually come to kill his father in a roadside dispute ( without knowing who he really was ), and unwittingly marry his mother when he became king of Thebes for ridding the city of the Sphinx.
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