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Amphitrite
''This article is about the Ancient Greek Goddess. For the asteroid, see 29 Amphitrite.''
In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite (; ) was a sea-goddess and wife of Poseidon.〔Compare the North Syrian Atargatis.〕 Under the influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became merely the consort of Poseidon, and was further diminished by poets to a symbolic representation of the sea. In Roman mythology, the consort of Neptune, a comparatively minor figure, was Salacia, the goddess of saltwater.〔''Sel'', "salt"; "...Salacia, the folds of her garment sagging with fish" (Apuleius, ''The Golden Ass'' 4.31).〕''
==Mythography==
Amphitrite was a daughter of Nereus and Doris (and thus a Nereid), according to Hesiod's ''Theogony'', but of Oceanus and Tethys (and thus an Oceanid), according to the ''Bibliotheca'', which actually lists her among both the Nereids〔Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheca'' i.2.7〕 ''and'' the Oceanids.〔''Bibliotheke'' i.2.2 and i.4.6.〕 Others called her the personification of the sea itself (saltwater). One of Amphitrite's Oceanid sisters is Perse, wife of the sun god Helios. Amphitrite's offspring included seals〔"''...A throng of seals, the brood of lovely Halosydne."'' (Homer, ''Odyssey'' iv.404).〕 and dolphins.〔Aelian, ''On Animals'' (12.45) ascribed to Arion a line "Music-loving dolphins, sea-nurslings of the Nereis maids divine, whom Amphitrite bore."〕 Poseidon and Amphitrite had a son, Triton who was a merman, and a daughter, Rhode (if this Rhode was not actually fathered by Poseidon on Halia or was not the daughter of Asopus as others claim). ''Bibliotheca'' (3.15.4) also mentions a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite named Benthesikyme.
Amphitrite is not fully personified in the Homeric epics: "out on the open sea, in Amphitrite's breakers" (''Odyssey'' iii.101), "moaning Amphitrite" nourishes fishes "in numbers past all counting" (''Odyssey'' xii.119). She shares her Homeric epithet ''Halosydne'' ("sea-nourished")〔(Wilhelm Vollmer, ''Wörterbuch der Mythologie'', 3rd ed. 1874 ):〕 with Thetis〔''Odyssey'' iv.404 (Amphitrite), and ''Iliad'', xx.207.〕 in some sense the sea-nymphs are doublets.
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