Another son of Proteus, Eioneus, became the father of Dymas, king of Phrygia. They both challenged Heracles at the behest of Hera and were killed by the hero. The children of Proteus by his sister-wife Torone of Phlegra were Polygonus ( Tmolus) and Telegonus. Proteus was generally regarded as the son of the sea-god Poseidon and Phoenice, a daughter of King Phoenix of Phoenicia. The first attestation of the name, although it is not certain whether it refers to the god or just a person, is in Mycenaean Greek the attested form, in Linear B, is □□□□, po-ro-te-u. It is not certain to what this refers, but in myths where he is the son of Poseidon, it possibly refers to his being Poseidon's eldest son, older than Poseidon's other son, the sea-god Triton. Proteus' name suggests the "first" (from Greek "πρῶτος" prōtos, "first"), as prōtogonos (πρωτόγονος) is the "primordial" or the "firstborn".
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