Sometimes her hair is enclosed with a net and her brow adorned with a pair of crab-claw "horns".
(Eurip. . 17 (trans. Triton, in Greek mythology, a merman, demigod of the sea; he was the son of the sea god, Poseidon, and his wife.
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From them he brought back the ring of Minos and a crown, bright with many gems, from Thetis, which she had received at her wedding as a gift from Venus [Aphrodite]. : Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. Eustathius said that Poseidon first saw her dancing at Naxos among the other Nereids,[14] and carried her off. 4. Catast. In the famous François Vase (a 6th-century bc black-figure krater; see Kleitias), Poseidon and Amphitrite, along with Zeus and Hera, attend the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
Refusing his offer of marriage, she fled to Atlas, from whom she was retrieved by a dolphin sent by Poseidon.
Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Pseudo-Hyginus, Preface (trans. Amphitrite and Poseidon.". Amphitrite was the mother of dolphins]: you brought me [Arion] to the cape of Tainaron (Taenarum) in Pelops' land when I drifted the Sikelian (Sicilian) Sea, carrying me on your humped backs, cleaving the furrows of Nereus' plain, a path untrodden, when treacherous men had thrown me from the sea-sailing hollow ship into the sea-purple swell of the ocean. [1] She was a daughter of Doris and Nereus (or Oceanus and Tethys).
Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 157 (trans.
. "Nereus and Doris were parents of the Nereides, whose names were Kymothoe (Cymothoe) .
3- 5 : "Thou, Nereus, and ye gods (daimones) of Amphitrite . : Images Photos Details: Poseidon is the violent and ill-tempered god of the sea.One of the Twelve Olympians, he was also feared as the provoker of earthquakes and worshipped as the creator of the horse.A hot-blooded deity, Poseidon had many disputes with both gods and men, most famously with Athena and Odysseus. Bellerophon by Eurymede, daughter of Nisus. .
", Oppian, Halieutica 1. § 6; iii. Poseidon chose Amphitrite from among her sisters as the Nereids performed a dance on the isle of Naxos.
", Apuleius, The Golden Ass 4. Hyrieus by Alcyone, daughter of Atlas. "You [Caesar praised as if he were Neptunus (Poseidon)] come as god of the boundless sea and sailors worship your deity alone, while farthest Thule owns your lordship and Tethys with the dowry of all her waves buys you to wed her daughter [Amphitrite]. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
", Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. Campbell, Vol. "Drowned at sea amid Amphitrite's billows.
§ 7), and her figure appeared among the relief ornaments of the temple of Apollo at Amyclae (iii. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.) : Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. :
. He will not disappear inland. Belus and Actor. [7] She also bred sea monsters and her great waves crashed against the rocks, putting sailors at risk. These too are made of ivory and gold. A colossal statue of her exists in the Villa Albani, and she frequently appears on coins of Syracuse. A great horse came bounding out of the sea, a monstrous animal, with his golden mane waving in the air. And at once a great swarm of dolphins, tumbling forward over the sea, led him through gently swelling waves to the Nereides. She is dressed in queenly robes and has nets in her hair. "Great god of the sea [Poseidon], husband of Amphitrite, goddess of the gold spindle. Amphitrite was depicted in Greek vase painting as a young woman, often raising her hand in a pinching gesture. He shook himself, tossing off the spray in showers. She was the female personification of the sea--the loud-moaning mother of fish, seals and dolphins. Fairclough) (Roman bucolic C1st B.C.) 19. Alkyonides (trans. : Pindar, Olympian Ode 6. 731 (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C.