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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 ...
When she reached a marriageable age, both her parents died, and the sea-god Poseidon, after falling in love with Cleito married her. They had five pairs of twins, namely: Atlas and Eumelus , Ampheres and Evaemon , Mneseus and Autochthon , Elasippus and Mestor , and lastly, Azaes and Diaprepes .
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 ...
Tyro was the daughter of King Salmoneus of Elis and Alcidice. She married her uncle, King Cretheus of Iolcus, and had three sons with him, and also bore twin sons with Poseidon. Aeson, one of Tyro's son with Cretheus, was the father of Jason, a central figure in the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece. Tyro later married her paternal uncle ...
Poseidon approaches Amymone, whose identity is symbolized by the water jug, with the Cupid above representing the erotic motive of the scene (Roman-era mosaic, House of Dionysos at Paphos) In Greek mythology , Amymone ( / æ m ɪ ˈ m oʊ n iː / ; Ancient Greek : Ἀμυμώνη , romanized : Amymóne , "blameless; innocent" [ 1 ] ) was a ...
Aethra (possibly same as above) is, in one source, called the wife of Hyperion, rather than Theia, and mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene. [6] Aethra, daughter of King Pittheus of Troezen and mother of Theseus either by Poseidon [7] or Aegeus. [8] This is the same Aethra who went to Troy with Helen as one of her two handmaidens. [9]