It also gets harder to digest that the average Instagram influencer is all of 16-years-old, and that I'm no longer the youngest copy editor in the Vogue office. In truth though, it's gotten harder to ignore insinuations to not buy the neon dress that the shop owner thinks is too ‘girly' for you, and to move on to a slightly more womanly one. The older I get, the more self-assured I assume I'm going to magically become. The word protean, one meaning of which is “changeable in shape or form,” is derived from Proteus.I have a funny relationship with ageing. Because Proteus could assume whatever shape he pleased, he came to be regarded by some as a symbol of the original matter from which the world was created. The captor in Homer’s version ( Odyssey, Book IV) was Menelaus in Virgil’s telling ( Georgics, Book IV) it was Aristaeus who tried to hold Proteus. But if his captor held him fast, the god at last returned to his proper shape, gave the wished-for answer, and plunged into the sea. Even when caught he would try to escape by assuming all sorts of shapes.
Those who wished to consult him had first to surprise and bind him during his noonday slumber. Proteus knew all things-past, present, and future-but disliked divulging what he knew. He was subject to the sea god Poseidon, and his dwelling place was either the island of Pharos, near the mouth of the Nile River, or the island of Carpathus, between Crete and Rhodes. Proteus, in Greek mythology, the prophetic old man of the sea and shepherd of the sea’s flocks (e.g., seals).
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