Amphitrite- The salty one
Amphitrite is the goddess and queen of the sea. Many people believed she was the daughter of Either Nereus and Doris She was one of 100 other children they had together, they were known as the Nereids (the daughters of Nereus) . She was married to the god of the sea Poseidon. He first saw her dancing on the island of Naxos, and he instantly fell in love. When he sued for her hand in marriage she ran to Atlas to keep herself pure to her true love Delphin, the god of the dolphins. Her true love surely found her and told her to marry Poseidon, for bringing her back,Poseidon sent Delphin to be among the stars and gave him a space in heavan. They lived in a golden palace under the sea near Aegea, Happier then ever. (Atsma)
When people decided her, many said she was the personification of the sea. Many also said she was very similar to Therassa, the spirit of the sea. When people painted her, many had her a young women with her hands raised with her fingers in a pinching look. some other artist had her holding a fish, because she is the goddess of the sea and they also had her riding on marine animals. Most pictures have her hair tied up in a net with horns. Some other paintings have her driving Poseidon in a chariot, drove by sea horses and other awesome sea creatures of the sea. The way people remember her is the way she danced with her sisters, They said her voice use to bring fish from all over the sea(Atsma)
People believed that all the fish and creatures in the ocean are Amphitrites offsprings with Poseidon. Amphitrite and Poseidon did have three children, the first born was the fish tailed boy named Triton, the messenger of the sea, the first girl named Rhodes, the goddess of the island Rhodes, and th...
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... who Amphitrite was and how women are now theirs many similarities. capricious and stubborn, and she used her beauty when she needed it. She was very opinionated, and judged many people on look and attitude. She always had to make her beauty noticeable, she always wanted all eyes on her. But she was very caring when it came to children she was there for the birth of Apollo, and helped Leto knowing her husband wouldn’t do the same. She helped out with anything as much as she could , She helped Theseus find the ring King Minos through in the ocean. He didn’t believe he was a child of Poseidon so he trough the ring in the sea for him to find it. Amphitrite grabbed it and placed right in Theseus hand. (Wiik)
Many people never really heard of Amphitrite but she was a very important Goddess to Poseidon and all the beautiful sea animals she helped raise and create .
The goddesses Played a vital role in Greek society for they were responsible for many aspects of Greek. life, i.e., a life of a child. birth, harvest, etc. Accompanying the 6 major goddesses (Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Hestia, Demeter and Artemis) we have the lesser divinities such as the Muses, the Graces, the Fates, etc. The second level of women used in Greek mythology is that of the human.
He was responsible for violent storms and earthquakes. The following story showed of Poseidon’s adventure. The god, Poseidon, was known to have an ill temper. At one point, he released tempests and earthquakes out of loneliness and anger. To combat his loneliness, he went out to find a wife and eventually set his sights of a Nymph named Amphitrite. She was the daughter of the Titan Oceanus who wanting to keep her virginity. Titan ended up rejecting Poseidon saying he was too violent, so he fled to the Atlas Mountains. The love struck Poseidon sent the dolphin king and messenger Delphinus to find his love. When Delphinus found her, he promised her that if she married Poseidon he would calm the seas. Thus, they were wed eventually having two children: Rhode Benthesicyme,
The Greek gods and goddess have sparked my interest ever since seventh grade when I read The Percy Jackson Series. All throughout the books my attention was grasped by their power and demanding personalities, one specific goddess that stood out to me was Athena. Her charm and dominant personality fascinated me and definitely caught my attention. Before reading The Percy Jackson Series, I knew very little about Athena or the gods and goddess’ in general. Later, I took it upon myself to find out more about who the gods were and why they are important to the series I was reading at the time. My knowledge came in handy during the research I did to complete my paper. During my research I found that Athena was very important in not only The Odyssey, but in Greek mythology. She was one of the most confident and practical goddess’, and she was very well respected by the Greek people because of how she helped them.
She is always spoken of respectfully and is remembered for her heroic deeds. She is not degraded like many of the other women Odysseus sees in the underworld. Everyone worships her and speaks about her achievements with great admiration; she is truly admired, but because she is a goddess. Athena has control over men that most women in The Odyssey do not. Women 's lives depend on what men think of them, on the other hand, men 's lives depend on Athena 's opinion of them. Athena is "Zeus ' virgin daughter" and no one has used her in that way. She is too important to be used as being an enjoyment for men; they depend on her for their own welfare. Another woman that plays a big role in this epic is Calypso. Calypso a nymph, a child of Zeus, and lives on an island in the middle of the ocean. One day Odysseus is sent to her by the god of the sea, Poseidon, because Poseidon was mad at Odysseus for blinding his son, the Cyclops. It is on this island that another woman is used as a sexual toy and is not thought of for her own achievements, but rather for her beauty, and the fact that she is the daughter of Zeus. Men in The Odyssey only value women who they can use for physical needs and wealth, such as the women in the underworld that Odysseus encounters, and Penelope. Homer shows us how men in The Odyssey consider women less important than men. The readers rarely hear of women throughout the book. When they do, they are shown
I am Poseidon, son of Cronos and Rhea. At birth my father Cronos swallowed me, but then I was thrown up. Many know me as god of the sea. Among sea god I am also god of rivers, floods, droughts, earthquakes, and horses. My brothers, Zeus of the sky, and Hades of the underworld, and I are known as the big three. This is probably since we have the most power. Other than Zeus and Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter were also my siblings. As a child I lived in Mount Olympus with my parents and siblings, but as I grew up and took responsibility for my powers I moved to a new home deep into the sea. Being a god I had children with both gods and mortals. My children with the mortals would be considered demi-gods meaning half god half mortal. The list of children is far too long to list. A few of my children are Aiolos, Asopos, Desopoine and Triton. Come take a dive into my life in a few short paragraphs.
The society in which classical myths took place, the Greco-Roman society was a very patriarchal one. By taking a careful gander at female characters in Greco-Roman mythology one can see that the roles women played differ greatly from the roles they play today. The light that is cast upon females in classical myths shows us the views that society had about women at the time. In classical mythology women almost always play a certain type of character, that is to say the usual type of role that was always traditionally played by women in the past, the role of the domestic housewife who is in need of a man’s protection, women in myth also tended to have some unpleasant character traits such as vanity, a tendency to be deceitful, and a volatile personality. If one compares the type of roles that ladies played in the myths with the ones they play in today’s society the differences become glaringly obvious whilst the similarities seem to dwindle down. Clearly, and certainly fortunately, society’s views on women today have greatly changed.
Poseidon is the Greek God of all bodies of water, earthquakes, and horses. He and his brothers (Zeus and Hades) split up the regions of the world between each other. Ocean storms is also something that Poseidon is held accountable for. Sailors would pray that they would have a safe journey to Poseidon. Poseidon’s trademark symbol is the trident (a spear that has 3 spikes instead of 1). While people now tend to fish with a hook and fishing pole, the Greeks used to spear fish with tridents.
In the time of Cornus and the Titans, Nereus was the sea god. Before retreating to his own underwater cave, Nereus gave one of his fifty nymph daughters, Amphitrite to Neptune ( Parin D’ Aulaire 114). Just like his brother Zeus, Poseidon was quite the lady’s man. One of his rather scandals acts was his love affair with the gorgon, Medusa. He and Medusa conceived one of the most famous creatures known to mythology, Pegasus, the winged stallion and his brother, Chysaor. A great hero known as Thesus was conceived when Poseidon raped Aethra. Above all, his love affair with his sister, Demeter is one of the most infamous love affairs in mythology. Since he fell in love with his sister, Demeter was doing the right thing and attempted to hide from him as she transformed into a mare. After Poseidon noticed, he decided to shape shift into one his famous symbols, the horse. Eventually, he was able to capture Demeter in his stallion form. Then, Demeter and and Poseidon produced a horse, Arion (Sellers 1). With another sea-nymph, Thoosa, Poseidon fathered possibly one of the most famous monsters, Ployphemus Cyclops, who was a one eyed creature (“Poseidon” Para. 6). For the reason that Poseidon was quite ...
also the goddess of war and the patroness of arts and crafts. Which led her to be a great leader
Another, more recent version of Medusa’s story sets her as once being a beautiful woman with shining hair and a beauty that many said rivaled Athena’s. She was a priestess/handmaiden in Athena’s temple. Poseidon, god ...
Greek mythology has always been a very fascinating subject to talk about. The belief that gods and goddesses once ruled the Earth is an interesting idea. To think that the land and sea were once looked upon by one of the strongest and fiercest gods that ever lived. Poseidon or Neptune was known to be one of the strongest gods that ever walked on the planet. Poseidon is best known for protecting and watching over the ocean.
Poseidon is a god with a lot of names he is most famous as the god of the sea, he controls the waves, the tsunamis, he cares for the plants and animals under the water he is Poseidon king of all waters. Poseidon had quite a bit of affairs. One affair involved his sister Demeter. He thought she was absolutely beautiful and desired her deeply. To avoid his constant sexual desires, Demeter turned herself into a mare, an act that only made Poseidon’s desire higher than ever. He turned himself into a stallion and raped her. This affair created a horse named Arion.
Poseidon sent the sea monster Cetus (a whale like creature) to punish King Cepheus, Queen Cassiopeia and their kingdom by destroying it with floods. The only way Cepheus could save his lands and his own life was to sacrifice his daughter to Cetus so he had his young daughter chained to a rock and left to be eaten by the sea monster. Luckily, the hero Perseus rescued her; they got married and had six children. It is said the goddess Athena placed Andromeda’s image among the stars next to the constellation of Perseus.
He was always accompanied by his son, Triton, who was half man, half fish. Triton would blow on his seashell to announce Poseidon's arrival.