Phanes
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Phanes may refer to:
- Phanes (mythology)Phanes (mythology)Phanes , or Protogonos , was the mystic primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life, who was introduced into Greek mythology by the Orphic tradition; other names for this Classical Greek Orphic concept included Ericapaeus and Metis...
, the Greek deity - Phanes (organic chemistry)Phanes (organic chemistry)Phanes are sub-structures of highly complex organic molecules introduced for simplification of the naming of these highly complex molecules.Systematic nomenclature of organic chemistry consists of building a name for the structure of an organic compound by a collection of names of its composite...
, a structural sub-unit in nomenclature - Phanes of HalicarnassusPhanes of HalicarnassusPhanes of Halicarnassus was a wise council man, a tactician, and a mercenary from Halicarnassus, serving the Egyptian pharaoh Amasis II. Most of what history recounts of Phanes is from the account of Herodotus in his grand historical text, The Histories...
, was a wise councilman serving Amasis, who would eventually help Cambyses II to conquer Egypt.