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Though Amphitrite does not figure in Greek cultus, at an archaic stage she was of outstanding importance, for in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, she appears at the birthing of Apollo among, in Hugh G. Evelyn-White's translation, "all the chiefest of the goddesses, Dione and Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and loud-moaning Amphitrite"; more ...
Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
There she poured a libation to Sphairos, Pelops' charioteer, and laid with Poseidon in the night. Aethra was therefore impregnated by both Aegeus [7] and Poseidon [8] in the process. According to Plutarch, her father spread this report merely that Theseus might be regarded as the son of Poseidon, who was much revered at Troezen. [9]
Clymene, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She was the mother of Atlas , Epimetheus , Prometheus , and Menoetius ; [ 6 ] other authors relate the same of her sister Asia . [ 7 ]
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
The Pre-Greek name may be related to a-sa-sa-ra , a possible interpretation of some Linear A texts. [18] Although Linear A is not yet deciphered, Palmer relates tentatively the word a-sa-sa-ra-me which seems to have accompanied goddesses, with the Hittite išhaššara , which means "lady or mistress", and especially with išhaššaramis (my lady).
In Greek mythology, Benthesikyme or Benthesicyme (/ b ɛ n θ ə ˈ s ɪ s ɪ m iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Βενθεσικύμη, romanized: Benthesikýmē) was, according to the mythographer Apollodorus, a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and the foster mother of Eumolpus. [2]
Poseidon maintained both associations among most Greeks: he was regarded as the tamer or father of horses, [2] who, with a strike of his trident, created springs (the terms for horses and springs are related in the Greek language). [4] His Roman equivalent is Neptune.