Phocus of Corinth Phocus of Corinth In Greek mythology, Phocus (; Ancient Greek: Φῶκος means "seal") the Corinthian, was a son of Ornytion (or Ornytus) and grandson of Sisyphus; some called him son of Poseidon. Thus he might be the same as the son of Poseidon and Pronoe referenced in the scholia on "Iliad", see above. Leaving the kingdom of Corinth to his brother Thoas, he led a colony to the region of Tithorea and Mount Parnassus; the land came to be named Phocis after him. Phocus is said to have cured the wandering Antiope of her madness, which she had been struck
Lovis Corinth places not devastated by the war, which makes it likely that the painting was looted rather than destroyed. In 2007, the German city of Hanover returned a painting by Corinth to the heirs of Jewish collector Curt Glaser who sold it in 1933 to fund his escape from the Nazis. The painting, "Romische Campagna (Roman Landscape)" (1914) was handed to Glaser's heirs, represented by his U.S.-based niece and her daughter. The house where Corinth was born is still in the town, which is now Gvardeysk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Lovis Corinth Lovis Corinth (21 July 1858 – 17 July 1925) was