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AMPHITRITE

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 893 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMPHITRITE , in See also:

ancient See also:Greek See also:mythology, a See also:sea-goddess, daughter of See also:Nereus (or See also:Oceanus) and wife of See also:Poseidon. She was so entirely confined in her authority to the sea and the creatures in it, that she was never associated with her See also:husband either for purposes of See also:worship or in See also:works of See also:art, except when he was to be distinctly regarded as the See also:god who controlled the sea. She was one of the Nereids, and distinguishable from the others only by her queenly attributes. It was said that Poseidon saw her first dancing at See also:Naxos among the other Nereids, and carried her off (Schol. on Od. iii. 91). But in another version of the myth, she then fled from him to the farthest ends of the sea, where the See also:dolphin of Poseidon found her, and was rewarded by being placed among the stars (Eratosthenes, Catast. 31). In works of art she is represented either enthroned beside him, or See also:driving with him in a See also:chariot See also:drawn by sea-horses or other fabulous creatures of the deep, and attended by Tritons and Nereids. In See also:poetry her name is often used for the sea.

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