- Amphitrite(Romans called her Salacia)
- A sea-goddess. Daughter of either Nereus and Doris or of
Oceanus and Tethys. Amphirite is a Nereid, (A type of Oceanid) a
water nymph that is confined to the waters surrounding Greece.
- Poseidon married Amphitrite
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Poseidon only married Amphitrite
after Delphin persuaded her. As consort and wife of Poseidon,
Poseidon sent a dolphin after her and it took her back. After he
married her, he rewarded the dolphin by making it a constellation
and placing it in the heavens.
- Home Life
- When he not living in Olympus, Poseidon lived with his
Oceanid wife and queen, Amphitrite, in his underwater palace,
Aegae. He always carried a mighty trident. A blow from trident
split open rock. He drove two-horse chariot over the waves often
taking Amphitrite along.
- Poseidon; Lord of the sea.
- Poseidon was the god of the sea, of earthquakes, of horses.
Son of the titans, Cronus and Rhea, was also known as the Roman
god of the sea, Neptune. Like his brother Zeus, he had numerous
affairs with nymphs and mortals before marrying Amphitrite.
- Gold Crown
- Zeus send thunder and lightning to proved Minos, king of Crete, was the
son of Zeus, the king threw a gold coin into the sea, and asked the Athenian
hero, Theseus, to proved he was the son of Poseidon. When Theseus jumped
into the sea to fetch the coin, Amphitrite not gave coin to Theseus, but her
gold crown as proof.
- Mother Of:
- She was the mother of the fish-man Triton, Rhode, Albion,
Charybdis and Benthesicyme.
- Generally
- Amphitrite, with her consorts, rode a chariot pulled by sea
creatures, or rode on a sea creature, surrounded by cherubs. Her
waving hair covered with a net, and other things of the sea.
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