The name of the plant family Proteaceae as well as the genus Protea, both to which P. cynaroides belongs to, derive from the name of the Greek god Proteus, a deity that was able to change between many forms.

Given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean sea deities such as Proteus and Nereus.

In Greek mythology, Proteus ( Πρωτεύς ) is an early sea-god, one of several deities whom Homer calls the " Old Man of the Sea ".

Proteus ' name suggests the " first " ( from Greek " πρῶτος "-protos, " first "), as protogonos ( πρωτόγονος ) is the " primordial " or the " firstborn ".

Another Proteus occurs in Greek myth as one of the fifty sons of King Aegyptus.

At Pharos — in Hellenistic times the site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, ( in modern Greek the word still has the meaning " lighthouse )— a king of Egypt named Proteus welcomed Dionysus in the young god's wanderings.

Because of the great diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after Proteus, a Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes, and it is therefore not named after the genus Proteus.

Silver-footed Thetis ( Ancient Greek: ), disposer or " placer " ( the one who places ), is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ( whose name suggests the " first ", the " primordial " or the " firstborn ").

10, 3, 21 ) that in Lemnos, the mother ( there was no father ) of the Cabeiri was Kabeiro ( Greek: Καβειρώ ) herself, a daughter of Proteus ( one of the " old men of the sea ") and a goddess whom the Greeks might have called Rhea.

This temple was discovered in the early 20th century by Flinders Petrie, who identified a depiction of the Greek god Proteus cited by Herodotus.

Discovered by Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989, it is named after Proteus, the shape-changing sea god of Greek mythology.

On 16 September 1991 S / 1989 N 1 was named after Proteus, the shape-changing sea god of Greek mythology.

Pharos is the only named surface feature on this moon: the name is Greek and refers to the island where Proteus reigned.

Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires ( mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American / early American origin ), the Huli jing of East Asia ( including the Japanese kitsune ), and the gods, goddesses, and demons of numerous mythologies, such as the Norse Loki or the Greek Proteus.

The genus Protea was named in 1735 by Carl Linnaeus after the Greek god Proteus, who could change his form at will, because proteas have such a wide variety of forms.

In the " Proteus " chapter ( in Greek myth Proteus was the old man of the sea and the shepherd of sea animals who knew all things past, present, and future but disliked telling what he knew ), Stephen ambles along the strand as his thoughts are related in the form of an interior monologue.

Proteus syndrome is highly variable, and is named after the Greek sea-god Proteus, who could change his shape.

* Proteus, a Greek god who is the son of Poseidon

* King Proteus, a mythical Greek ruler, featured in the story of Bellerophon

Popular names in the EDA software world are NI Multisim, Cadence ( ORCAD ), Eagle PCB and Schematic, Mentor ( PADS PCB and LOGIC Schematic ), Altium ( Protel ), LabCentre Electronics ( Proteus ), gEDA, KiCad and many others.

According to Homer ( Odyssey iv: 412 ), the sandy island of Pharos situated off the coast of the Nile Delta was the home of Proteus, the oracular Old Man of the Sea and herdsman of the sea-beasts.

The often unconventional playwright introduces a " real " Helen and a " phantom " Helen ( who caused the Trojan War ), and gives a backstory that makes the father of his character Theoclymenus, Proteus, a king in Egypt who had been wed to a Nereid Psamathe.

Other catalase-positive organisms include Listeria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Burkholderia cepacia, Nocardia, the family Enterobacteriaceae ( Citrobacter, E. coli, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, Shigella, Yersinia, Proteus, Salmonella, Serratia, Pseudomonas ), Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Aspergillus, and Cryptococcus.

Notable Presidents of IEEE and its founding organizations include Elihu Thomson ( AIEE, 1889 – 1890 ), Alexander Graham Bell ( AIEE, 1891 – 1892 ), Charles Proteus Steinmetz ( AIEE, 1901 – 1902 ), Lee De Forest ( IRE, 1930 ), Frederick E. Terman ( IRE, 1941 ), William R. Hewlett ( IRE, 1954 ), Ernst Weber ( IRE, 1959 ; IEEE, 1963 ), and Ivan Getting ( IEEE, 1978 ).

He warns her that the fairies will attempt to make her drop him by turning him into all manner of beasts ( see Proteus ), but that he will do her no harm.

There, he was cared for by the Sinties, according to Iliad or by Thetis ( Apollodorus, Bibliotheke I: 3. 5 ), and there with a Thracian nymph Cabiro ( a daughter of Proteus ) he fathered a tribe called the Kaberoi.

* Proteus ( Marvel Comics ), a Marvel Comics fictional character, originally known as ' Mutant X ' but unrelated to the series of the same name and publisher

While historically restricted to people of European ancestry for most of its history, Rex had no trouble complying with the 1991 anti-segregation ordinances which ended the parades of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, the Krewe of Proteus ( temporarily ), and the Knights of Momus.

In Wieland's later novels, such as the Geheime Geschichte des Philosophen Peregrinus Proteus ( 1791 ) and Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen ( 1800 – 1802 ), a didactic and philosophic tendency obscures the small literary interest they possess.

It covers the story of Sinbad ( voiced by Brad Pitt ), a pirate who travels the sea to recover the lost Book of Peace from Eris ( voiced by Michelle Pfeiffer ) in order to save his childhood friend, Prince Proteus ( voiced by Joseph Fiennes ), from accepting Sinbad's death sentence.

Ampicillin ( originally branded as ' Penbritin ') also demonstrated activity against Gram-negative organisms such as H. influenzae, coliforms and Proteus spp.

Shakespeare also names one of the main characters of his play The Two Gentlemen of Verona Proteus.

Proteus also told Menelaus that he was destined for Elysium ( Heaven ) after his death.

And they also produced 10 Willemoes Class Torpedo / Guided Missile boats ( in service from 1974 to 2000 ) which had 3 Rolls Royce Marine Proteus Gas Turbines also rated at, same as the Søløven class boats, and 2 General Motors Diesel Engines, rated at, also for improved fuel economy at slow speeds.

* Shakespeare also alludes to this story in the opening scene of Two Gentlemen of Verona, in a dialogue between Valentine and Proteus ( the two gentlemen in the play ):

He studied rhetoric under Titus Castricius and Sulpicius Apollinaris ; philosophy under Calvisius Taurus and Peregrinus Proteus ; and enjoyed also the friendship and instruction of Favorinus, Herodes Atticus, and Fronto.

Gorgophone was also the name of one of the Danaids ; she married and murdered Proteus, a son of Aegyptus.

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Lucian also wrote a satire called The Passing of Peregrinus, in which the lead character, Peregrinus Proteus, takes advantage of the generosity and gullibility of Christians.

The series also deals with other social issues, including divorce (" Proteus "), Christianity (" Nightcrawler " & " Bloodlines "), the Holocaust (" Enter Magneto ," " Deadly Reunions ", " Days of Future Past ", and " The Phalanx Covenant "), AIDS hysteria (" Time Fugitives "), and even satires of television itself (" Mojovision " and " Longshot ").

The Finnish Hard Dance scene has also gained some following, primarily due to Helsinki based DJ Proteus winning the title of Best DJ at The Hard Dance Awards in 2004 and 2005.

* The term " Proteus " and " Vombis " also were used in a James Blish short story, " A Hero's Life " about a race of alien beings who could change shape at will, but were not as malevolent as The Thing written about by John W. Campbell.

Warren also mentions Leon Rubin's 1984 Ontario production ( where the controversial line was altered to " All my love to Silvia I also give to thee "), David Thacker's 1991 Swan Theatre production, and the 1983 BBC Shakespeare television adaptation as supporting the theory that Valentine is not giving Silvia away, but is simply promising to love Proteus as much as he loves Silvia.

" As in Schlueter, Carroll here interprets Valentine's actions as a gift to Proteus, but unlike Schlueter, and more in line with traditional criticism of the play, Carroll also argues that such a gift, as ridiculous as it is, is perfectly understandable when one considers the cultural and social milieu of the play itself.

It also featured two 17-year-olds in the roles of Valentine and Proteus ( usually, actors in their 20s are cast ), and Crab was played not by a dog, but by a human actor in a dog costume.

A different German TV movie, under the title Die zwei Herren aus Verona, was screened in 1966, also on Das Erste, directed by Harald Benesch, and starring Jürgen Kloth as Valentine, Lothar Berg as Proteus, Anne-Marie Lermon as Julia and Carola Regnier as Silvia.

Avanti was founded when several ex-Cadence employees bought the startup ArcSys, which had previously merged with ISS, gaining Avanti its DRC / LVC tool Hercules ( including 3D silicon structure modeling ), then bought Compass Design Automation, which had fully integrated IC Design Flow and ASIC Libraries, especially its place and route tool, which Avanti reworked to create Saturn and Apollo II ; and it also bought TMA which brought their pioneering TCAD and Proteus Optical proximity correction tools.

Proteus did parade in the 1992 Carnival season but also suspended its parade for a time, returning to the parade schedule in 2000.

Proteus syndrome, also known as Wiedemann syndrome ( named after the German paediatrician Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann ), is a congenital disorder that causes skin overgrowth and atypical bone development, often accompanied by tumors over half the body.

Because of carrying excess weight and enlarged limbs, arthritis and muscle pain may also be symptoms — as is the case for Mandy Sellars, a woman living with a form of Proteus syndrome.