Editing Amphitrite (section)

==Mythology==
[[File:Amphitrite Penteskouphia Louvre MNC208.jpg|thumb|left|Amphitrite ("Aphirita") bearing a [[trident]] on a ''[[pinax]]'' from [[Corinth]] (575–550 BC).<ref>{{cite book|last=Ogden |first=Daniel |author-link=<!--Daniel Ogden--> |translator-last=Raffan |translator-first=John |translator-link=<!--John Raffan--> |title=The Legend of Seleucus |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-M8oDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA41 |page=41, note 64|isbn=978-1-107-16478-9}}</ref>]]

When Poseidon desired to marry her, Amphitrite, wanting to protect her virginity, fled to the [[Atlas Mountains]]. Poseidon sent many creatures to find her. A [[dolphin]] came across Amphitrite and convinced her to marry Poseidon. As a reward for the dolphin's help, Poseidon created the [[Delphinus]] constellation.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''[[De astronomia]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.17.1 2.17.1]</ref>

[[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] said that Poseidon first saw her dancing at [[Naxos, Greece|Naxos]] among the other Nereids,<ref>[[Eustathius of Thessalonica]], ''Commentary on Odyssey'' 3.91.1458, line 40.</ref> and carried her off.<ref>The ''Wedding of Neptune and Ampitrite'' provided a subject to [[Poussin]]; the painting is at Philadelphia.</ref> But in another version of the myth, she fled from his advances to [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]],<ref>''ad Atlante'', in Hyginus' words.</ref> at the farthest ends of the sea; there the dolphin of Poseidon sought her through the islands of the sea, and finding her, spoke persuasively on behalf of Poseidon, if we may believe Hyginus<ref>"''…qui pervagatus insulas, aliquando ad virginem pervenit, eique persuasit ut nuberet Neptuno…''" [[Oppian]]'s ''Halieutica'' I.383–92 is a parallel passage.</ref> and was rewarded by being placed among the stars as the constellation [[Delphinus]].<ref>''[[Catasterismi]]'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=0EoZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158 31]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Poetical Astronomy'', ii.17, .132.</ref>

Amphitrite is not fully personified in the [[Odyssey|Homeric epics]]: "out on the open sea, in Amphitrite's breakers" (''[[Odyssey]]'' iii.101), "moaning Amphitrite" nourishes fishes "in numbers past all counting" (''Odyssey'' xii.119<!--is this the exact line number? pls check and delete this notice-->). She shares her [[Homer]]ic epithet ''Halosydne'' ({{langx|grc|Ἁλοσύδνη|Halosúdnē|sea-nourished}})<ref>[http://www.vollmer-mythologie.de/halosydne/ Wilhelm Vollmer, ''Wörterbuch der Mythologie'', 3rd ed. 1874]</ref> with [[Thetis]].<ref>''[[Odyssey]]'' iv.404 (Amphitrite), and ''[[Iliad]]'', xx.207.</ref> In some sense, the sea-nymphs are doublets.

[[Pindar]], in his sixth Olympian Ode, recognized Poseidon's role as "great god of the sea, husband of Amphitrite, goddess of the golden spindle." For later poets, Amphitrite became simply a metaphor for the sea: Euripides, in ''Cyclops'' (702) and [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses (poem)|Metamorphoses]]'', (i.14).