According to Homer, the sandy island of Pharos positioned off the coast of the Nile Delta was the your home of Proteus, the oracular Aged Gentleman of the Sea and herdsman of the sea-beasts. He learned from Proteus' daughter, Eidothea, that if he could seize her father he could force him to reveal which of the gods he had offended, and how he could propitiate them and return property. Proteus emerged from the sea to slumber among his colony of seals, but Menelaus was flourishing in keeping him, while Proteus took the forms of a lion, a serpent, a leopard, a pig, even of h2o or a tree. Proteus then answered truthfully, further informing Menelaus that his brother Agamemnon had been murdered on his return property, that Ajax the Lower had been shipwrecked and killed, and that Odysseus was stranded on Calypso's Isle Ogygia. In accordance to Virgil in the fourth Georgic, at 1 time the bees of Aristaeus, son of Apollo, all died of a disease. Aristaeus went to his mom, Cyrene, for support she instructed him that Proteus could tell him how to avoid yet another this sort of catastrophe, but would do so only if compelled. Aristeus did so, and Proteus finally gave up and told him to sacrifice twelve animals to the gods, depart the corpses in the destination of sacrifice, and return three days later. When Aristaeus returned after the 3 days he uncovered in one particular of the carcasses a swarm of bees, which he took to his apiary. The little ones of Proteus, moreover Eidothea, comprise of Polygonus and Telegonus, who both challenged Heracles and had been killed, a single of Heracles numerous flourishing encounters with reps of the globe order..