He shares his name with a jealous acquaintance of Bellerophon who sends the hero on a journey to deliver his own death warrant to King Iobates of Lycia.
He shares his name with a jealous acquaintance of Bellerophon who sends the hero on a journey to deliver his own death warrant to King Iobates of Lycia. Various sources place his home on the island of Carpathus between Crete and Rhodes. His most famous visitor approached him on the advice of his own daughter, Eidothea. Stranded on the Egyptian island of Pharos, Menelaus, dressed as a seal, accosted him during a midday nap, and subdued him as he changed into a lion, a dragon, a leopard, a boar, a film of water, and a tree. For 10 points, name this reluctant old prophet who, through his metamorphoses, has become a symbol for primeval matter.
He shares his name with a jealous acquaintance of Bellerophon who sends the hero on a journey to deliver his own death warrant to King Iobates of Lycia.
{Proteus}