#punica

So I was looking through Phorcys Topostext page to learn more about him, which proved to be difficult since he’s mixed up with Phorcys son of Phaenops, that’s just inconvenient, but then I found the Latin poem Punica, which is based on the Second Punic War (Hannibal fanfiction basically) the Wikipedia page mixed up Phorcys and Proteus which is also annoying but then we meet this new Phorcys who isn’t Medusa’s father but… descendant???? And he’s proud to be her descendant??? And not only that but in the two translations I’ve come across she’s referred to as a goddess???

Zeus, the cloud-gatherer, begat Dardanus, and he founded Dardania -> Homer's Iliad, 20.215

Next he sang of Jupiter — his sweet and secret dalliance, and his union with Electra, daughter of Atlas; how their son was Dardanus, worthy of his divine parents; and how Dardanus gave the Thunderer a grandson, Erichthonius of high descent -> Silius Italicus' Punica, 11.286

Dardanos who once, during the flood, [...] came to Ilion [...] when Zeus flooded the earth during the time of Deucalion -> Tzetzes' Ad Lycophronem, 72

Building a raft and wrapping himself in a leather sack, he crossed to Mount Ida in the Troad. He got off the raft and on Zeus’ orders built a city -> D Scholia to the Iliad

One Palladium was given by Zeus to Dardanus and that this remained in Ilium, hidden in the sanctuary, till the city was being taken -> Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Roman Antiquities, 1.69.3

That huge golden cup, a gift of Gods; for this the cunning God-smith brought to Zeus, his masterpiece, [...] and Zeus on Dardanus his godlike son bestowed it -> Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, 2.137

When Troy was captured, and the Greeks divided the spoils, Eurypylus the son of Euaemon got a chest. In it was an image of Dionysus, the work, so they say, of Hephaestus, and given as a gift by Zeus to Dardanus -> Pausanias' Descriptions of Greece, 7.19.6