In the Odyssey ( iv. 430ff ) Menelaus wrestles with " Proteus of Egypt, the immortal old man of the sea who never lies, who sounds the deep in all its depths, Poseidon's servant " ( Robert Fagles's translation ).

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.

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.

While stranded in Egypt, Menelaus learned from Proteus how he could return home.

King Proteus of Egypt, appalled that Paris had seduced his host's wife and plundered his host's home in Sparta, disallowed Paris from taking Helen to Troy.

* Proteus of Egypt, an Egyptian king in a version of the story of Helen of Troy

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In Egypt, king Proteus, who had protected Helen, has died.

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 ".

The play's king ( never seen ) is only marginally related to the " Old Man of the Sea " and should not be confused with the sea god Proteus.

Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Issac Asimov's novelization.

John Barth's novelette " Menelaiad " in Lost in the Funhouse is built around a battle between Proteus and Menelaus.

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.

* Krista Reese, The Name of This Book is Talking Heads ( London: Proteus Books, 1982 ).

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 ").

Proteus is the largest irregularly shaped moon.

It is likely, however, that Merrick suffered from the very rare Proteus syndrome.

The father of Phrygian Dymas is given as one Eioneus, son of Proteus, by some ancient mythographers ( scholiasts on Euripides ).

Mr. Boyer works for Proteus and is a member of Kiwanis.

Image: Proteus ( Voyager 2 ). jpg | Proteus also 400km is non-spherical

Haydon-Baillie is the owner of the super yacht Brave Challenger and uses the same Rolls-Royce Proteus Marine engines as the SRN4s.

Unlike neurofibromatosis, Proteus syndrome affects tissue other than nerves, and it is a sporadic disorder rather than a genetically transmitted disease.

Proteus (; Greek: Πρωτεύς ), also known as Neptune VIII, is the second largest Neptunian moon, and Neptune's largest inner satellite.

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

Proteus is probably not an original body that formed with Neptune ; it may have accreted later from the debris created when the largest Neptunian satellite Triton was captured.

Proteus is the largest of the regular prograde satellites of Neptune.

Proteus is the second largest moon of Neptune.

The surface of Proteus is dark — its geometrical albedo is about 10 %.

# Eurynome, an alternate name for Eidothea, the daughter of Proteus.

The Exiles chase Proteus through several realities, including an alternate version of the New Universe, an alternate version of 2099, Squadron Supreme, Future Imperfect, and Heroes Reborn, before finally bringing Proteus down by trapping him in Morph ’ s body, which does not decay, unlike all of Proteus ’ other host bodies.

The Danish Navy had 6 Søløven class torpedo boats ( the export version of the British Brave class fast patrol boat ) in service from 1965 to 1990 ) which had 3 Bristol Proteus ( later RR Proteus ) Marine Gas Turbines rated at combined, plus two General Motors Diesel engines, rated at, for better fuel economy at slower speeds.

In 1903, Charles Proteus Steinmetz of GE delivered a 10 kHz version which proved of limited use and could not be directly used as a radio transmitter.

In 1996, Jack Shepherd directed a modern dress version at the Globe Theatre starring Lenny James as Valentine, Mark Rylance as Proteus, Stephanie Roth Haberle as Julia and Anastasia Hille as Silvia.

In 2001, Douglas C. Wager directed a version of the play set in the 1950s and featuring the music of Bill Haley and Connie Francis, with Gregory Wooddell as Valentine, Paul Whitthorne as Proteus, Julia Dion as Julia and Louise Zachry as Silvia.

In this version of the play, Valentine is in love with Proteus, but Proteus ' father would rather see him marry the wealthy Julia.

An Austrian TV version, under the title Zwei aus Verona, was screened on channel ORF eins in 1969, a live transmission of Edwin Zbonek's production from the Theater in der Josefstadt, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Valentine, Albert Rueprecht as Proteus, Kitty Speiser as Julia and Brigitte Neumeister as Silvia.

Among the memorable performances ( including some from before Papp had the Delacorte for his Shakespeare ) were George C. Scott's Obie-award winning Richard III in 1958 ; Colleen Dewhurst's Kate, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra ( opposite George C. Scott's Mark Antony ), and Gertrude ; the Prince Hamlet of Stacy Keach opposite Dewhurst's Gertrude with James Earl Jones ' King Claudius, Barnard Hughes's Polonius and Sam Waterston's Laertes ; Sam Waterston's Hamlet ( opposite the Gertrude of Ruby Dee ) with the Laertes of John Lithgow and Andrea Marcovicci's Ophelia ; the Benedick and Beatrice of Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes in Much Ado About Nothing with Barnard Hughes's Keystone Kops version of Dogberry ; the early work of Meryl Streep as Isabella in Measure for Measure ; Mary Beth Hurt as Randall Duk Kim's daughter in Pericles ; James Earl Jones as King Lear ( 1973 ) with Rosalind Cash and Ellen Holly as his wicked daughters ; Raul Julia as Edmund in Jones ' 1973 King Lear, as Osric to Keach's Hamlet, and as Proteus ( in a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona which transferred to a Broadway run ).

After swearing never to kill again, his subsequent hesitation to do so, further compounded by an illusion in which Blink claims to no longer love him, allows the villain Proteus to possess him when the Exiles visit the House of M version of the regular Marvel Universe.

This version has the crew of the Proteus explore the body of a dead alien that crash-lands on earth, and updates the story with such modern concepts as nanotechnology ( replacing killer white cells ).

The first is the " Model 395 ", a militarized version of the Scaled Composites Proteus modified to a pure UAV configuration, with a sensor turret under the nose and a SAR-MTI pod under the forward fuselage, and carrying munitions on the centerline, for example tandem triple racks to carry six 225 kilogram ( 500 pound ) munitions.

The name " Protei " is a Russian version of the classical Latin / Greek mythological name Proteus.