In Virgil's Georgics, this god advises Aristaeus to sacrifice 12 animals and leave the corpses, one of which produces a swarm of bees three days later.
A king who shared this god's name had a daughter named Theonoe and was married to the Nereid Psamathe. This god's sons Polygonus and Telegonus died after foolishly challenged Heracles to wrestling matches. In Virgil's Georgics, this god advises Aristaeus to sacrifice 12 animals and leave the corpses, one of which produces a swarm of bees three days later. He also advised a king on how to return to Sparta from Egypt, where that king captured this god while he was sleeping among his herd of seals. For 10 points, name this shapeshifting son of Poseidon, Oceanus or Nereus, a god sometimes known as the "Old Man of the Sea."
A king who shared this god's name had a daughter named Theonoe and was married to the Nereid Psamathe.
{Proteus} [do not accept {Nereu}s]