§ 7), and her figure appeared among the relief ornaments of the temple of Apollo at Amyclae (iii. The temple of Poseidon on the Corinthian isthmus contained a statue of Amphitrite (Paus. She was sometimes represented as riding on marine animals, and sometimes as drawn by them. 14.) Amphitrite was frequently represented in ancient works of art her figure resembled that of Aphrodite, but she was usually distinguished from her by a sort of net which kept her hair together, and by the claws of a crab on her forehead. § 4.) Later poets regard Amphitrite as the goddess of the sea in general, or the ocean. 45, 649.) She became by Poseidon the mother of Triton, Rhode, or Rhodos, and Benthesicyme. 17.) When afterwards Poseidon shewed some attachment to Scylla, Amphitrite's jealousy was excited to such a degree, that she threw some magic herbs into the well in which Scylla used to bathe, and thereby changed her rival into a monster with six heads and twelve feet. When Poseidon sued for her hand, she fled to Atlas, but her lover sent spies after her, and among them one Delphinus, who brought about the marriage between her and Poseidon, and the grateful god rewarded his service by placing him among the stars. The most ancient passages in which she occurs as a real goddess is that of Hesiod above referred to and the Homeric hymn on the Delian Apollo (94), where she is represented as having been present at the birth of Apollo. In the Homeric poems she does not occur as a goddess, and Amphitrite is merely the name of the sea. She is represented as the wife of Poseidon and the goddess of the sea (the Mediterranean), and she is therefore a kind of female Poseidon. § 7) a Nereid, though in other places Apollodorus (i. 3.92d, Oppian Halieutica 1.1)ĪMPHITRI′TE (Amphitritê), according to Hesiod ( Theog. SEALS, DOLPHINS, FISH, SHELLFISH (Homer Odyssey 4.404 & 5.440, Aelian On Animals 12.45, Athenaeus Deip. BENTHESIKYME (by Poseidon) (Apollodorus 3.201) KYMOPOLEIA (by Poseidon) (Hesiod Theogony 817) TRITON (by Poseidon) (Hesiod Theogony 939, Apollodorus 1.28, Hyginus Pref) OKEANOS & TETHYS (Apollodorus 1.8) OFFSPRING
NEREUS & DORIS (Hesiod Theogony 243, Apollodorus 1.11) Her Roman equivalent was Salacia whose name means "the salty one." Amphitrite was essentially the same as the primordial sea-goddess Thalassa. Her name is probably derived from the Greek words amphis and tris, "the surrounding third." Her son Tritôn was similarly named "of the third." Clearly "the third" is the sea, although the reason for the term is obscure. Sometimes her hair is enclosed with a net and her brow adorned with a pair of crab-claw "horns". In mosaic art the goddess usually rides beside her husband in a chariot drawn by fish-tailed horses or hippokampoi.
The dolphin-god Delphin eventually tracked her down and persuaded her to return to wed the sea-king.Īmphitrite was depicted in Greek vase painting as a young woman, often raising her hand in a pinching gesture. When Poseidon first sought Amphitrite's hand in marriage, she fled his advances, and hid herself away near Atlas in the Ocean stream at the far ends of the earth. She was the female personification of the sea-the loud-moaning mother of fish, seals and dolphins. Encircling Third Poseidon and Amphitrite, Greco-Roman mosaic C4th A.D., Musée du LouvreĪMPHITRITE was the goddess-queen of the sea, wife of Poseidon, and eldest of the fifty Nereides.
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