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The ancient Greeks had numerous water deities.The philosopher Plato once remarked [1] that the Greek people were like frogs sitting around a pond—their many cities hugging close to the Mediterranean coastline from the Hellenic homeland to Asia Minor, Libya, Sicily, and southern Italy.
In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite (/ æ m f ɪ ˈ t r aɪ t iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιτρίτη, romanized: Amphitrítē) was the goddess of the sea, the queen of the sea, and her consort is Poseidon. She was a daughter of Nereus and Doris (or Oceanus and Tethys). [1]
In Greek mythology, Proteus (/ ˈ p r oʊ t i ə s, ˈ p r oʊ t. j uː s / PROH-tee-əs, PROHT-yooss; [1] Ancient Greek: Πρωτεύς, romanized: Prōteús) is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea" (hálios gérôn). [2]
Triton (/ ˈ t r aɪ t ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Τρίτων, romanized: Trítōn) is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. Later he is often depicted as having a conch shell he would blow like a trumpet. [citation needed]
With the sea goddess Thalassa (whose own name simply means "sea" but is derived from a Pre-Greek root), he fathered all sea life. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In a Roman sculpture of the 2nd century AD, Pontus, rising from seaweed, grasps a rudder with his right hand and leans on the prow of a ship.
In the other interpretation, –nome is as in English auto-nomy. A ruler is someone who "distributes" law and justice. Neither case has any bearing on the status of Eurynome as a possible Pelasgian mother goddess. If Eurynome was the descendant of a pre-Greek goddess, she must have had a pre-Greek name, and not the Greek name, Eurynome.
The Oceanid Doris, like her mother Tethys, was an important sea-goddess. [8] While their brothers, the river gods, were the usual personifications of major rivers, Styx (according to Hesiod the eldest and most important Oceanid) was also the personification of a major river, the underworld 's river Styx. [ 9 ]
Goddess of memory and remembrance, and mother of the Nine Muses. Oceanus: Ὠκεανός (Ōceanós) God of the all-encircling river Oceans around the Earth, the fount of all the Earth's fresh-water. Phoebe: Φοίβη (Phoíbē) Goddess of the "bright" intellect and prophecy, and consort of Coeus. Rhea: Ῥέα (Rhéa)