The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Triton

Family: deities · Role: sea god · First appears: Fable 9

Life events

  • Neptune commands Triton to sound his shell, causing the waters to retreat.(Fable9)
    • With: Neptune
    • “Neptune appeases the angry waves; and he commands Triton to sound his shell, that the sea may retire within its shores, and the rivers within their banks.”

Fable 9

  • parent: Neptune “the chief Triton, was fabled to be the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, who always preceded Neptune in his course”
  • parent: Amphitrite “the chief Triton, was fabled to be the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, who always preceded Neptune in his course”

Fable 101

  • with Glaucus (Glaucus identifies himself and Triton as Gods of the waters and rulers of the deep.) “I am a God of the waters: nor have Proteus, and Triton, and Palæmon, the son of Athamas, a more uncontrolled reign over the deep.”

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