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Poseidon and Amphitrite had a son, Triton, who was a merman, and a daughter, Rhodos (if this Rhodos was not actually fathered by Poseidon on Halia or was not the daughter of Asopus as others claim). According to the mythographer Apollodorus , Benthesikyme was the daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite.
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.
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] A less common genealogy makes Clymene the mother of Deucalion by ...
Periboea, an alternate name for Merope, the wife of King Polybus of Corinth and mother of Alcinoe. [12] She was the foster mother of Oedipus, future king of Thebes. [13] Periboea, a Naiad, wife of Icarius, mother of Penelope, Perilaus, Aletes, Damasippus, Imeusimus and Thoas, [14] presumably also of Iphthime. [15]
Poseidon was the father of Despoina and he was worshipped as Poseidon Hippios (horse). [25] Although this cult remained regional rather than becoming panhellenic, this is a very important site for the study of ancient mystery religions. In Arcadia Poseidon was closely related to the pair of Arcadian great goddesses identified as Demeter and ...
Neptune and Salacia in a mosaic, Herculaneum, 1st c. AD Neptune and Amphitrite by Sebastiano Ricci, c. 1690. In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia (/ s ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə / sə-LAY-shə, Latin: [saˈɫaːkia]) was the female divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean. [1]
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Evadne, a daughter of Strymon and Neaera, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Peiras, Epidaurus and Criasus. [1] Evadne, a daughter of Poseidon and Pitane [2] who was raised by Aepytus of Arcadia. She experienced the joys of her first love with Apollo. However, when her consequent pregnancy was discovered by Aepytus, he was ...