Phorcys

Venus turns out to have been stolen by Aphrodite, who wants to punish her for taking her name and aspect (Aphrodite also being known as Venus) and draws up the Phorcys to control her once again.

Review: Rapid-Fire Review | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

In the backup story, the much-beloved Agents of Atlas find that Venus has been manipulated by her godly namesake into working for her evil former master, the Phorcys, again and we end with Venus seemingly willing to slaughter thousands of innocents to save her boss.

Review: Rapid-Fire Review | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

Crataeis,33 bare to Phorcys, lest swooping upon them with her horrible jaws she destroy the chiefest of the heroes.

The Argonautica 2008

“Thou god, who hast manifested thyself on the borders of this land, whether the daughters born of the sea call thee Triton, the great sea-marvel, or Phorcys, or Nereus, be gracious, and grant the return home dear to our hearts.”

The Argonautica 2008

And yet again he got great Thaumas and proud Phorcys, being mated with Earth, and fair-cheeked Ceto and Eurybia who has a heart of flint within her.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Oceanus and Tethys were the children of Earth and Heaven, and from these sprang Phorcys and Cronos and Rhea, and all that generation; and from Cronos and Rhea sprang Zeus and Here, and all those who are said to be their brethren, and others who were the children of these.

Timaeus 2006

There are those among us who claim that some upstart merely wished to steal the worship due to Jove; and that Baphomet, a child of Phorcys and Ceto, was the man crucified at Calvary; or else Simon the Magician, one of the Gray Sisters 'sons.

Orphans of Chaos 2005

Thus Hine's poem says to us: pictured here is the moment just before the hero Perseus will strike dead the monstrous offspring of Phorcys and Ceto.

The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972

Phorcys, being mated with Earth, and fair-cheeked Ceto and Eurybia who has a heart of flint within her.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

Phorcys and Ceto personified more especially the hidden perils and terrors of the ocean.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens