Amphitrite
Family: sea gods · Role: goddess · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 17
In Book 1, Chapter 17, Theseus jumped into the sea and came up with Minos’s ring and “a golden crown, the gift of Amphitrite.” In Book 2, Chapter 1, Amphitrite and Poseidon are shown in a chariot with their son Melicerta seated on a dolphin’s back.
By Book 5, Chapter 11, Amphitrite is mentioned alongside Poseidon at the end of a platform. In Chapter 26, she appears with Poseidon and Vesta in references to offerings associated with Glaucus and Micythus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Theseus retrieved Minos’s ring and received a golden crown from Amphitrite.(Book 1 · Chapter 17 · 📍 the sea)
Book 1 · Chapter 17
- with Theseus (Amphitrite gives Theseus a golden crown.) “Theseus jumped into the sea and came up with the ring and a golden crown, the gift of Amphitrite.”
Book 2 · Chapter 1
- child: Melicerta “Amphitrite and Poseidon are standing in a chariot, and their son Palæmon is seated bolt upright on the dolphin’s back”
Book 5 · Chapter 11
- with Poseidon (Amphitrite and Poseidon are depicted together.) “at the end of the platform Amphitrite and Poseidon”
Book 5 · Chapter 26
- with Glaucus (the Argive sculptor) (Glaucus made the statue of Amphitrite.) “viz. Amphitrite and Poseidon and Vesta, by the Argive Glaucus.”
- with Micythus (The statue was among Micythus's votive offerings.) “I found also many votive offerings of Micythus scattered about, and three of them together, next to the statue of Iphitus of Elis and Truce crowning him, viz. Amphitrite and Poseidon and Vesta”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.