Proteas

(Πρωτέας).

1. An Athenian general in the time of the Peloponnesian war, the son of Epicles. He was one of the three commanders of the squadron sent out to assist the Corcyraeans in their contest with the Corinthians. Again, in the first year of the Peloponnesian war (B. C. 431), Proteas was one of the three commanders of the fleet of 100 ships, sent round Peloponnesus (Thuc. 1.45, 2.23).

2. A Macedonian officer, the son of Andronicus. He was employed by Antipater in collecting a squadron with which to defend the islands and coasts of Greece against the Phoenicians and others in the service of Persia, and succeeded in capturing, at Siphnus, 8 out of a squadron of 10 ships, with which Datames was there stationed. (Arrian, Arr. Anab. 2.2.7-11.)

3. Son of Lanice, the nurse of Alexander the Great. [Lanice.]

4. Grandson of the former, and, like him, notorious for his propensity to drinking. (Athen. 4.129. a.; Photius, Phot. Bibl. 190. p. 148. a., ed. Bekker.) [C.P.M]