Editing Amphitrite (section)

==Representation and cult==
Though Amphitrite does not figure in Greek ''[[Cult (religion)|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 (mythology)|Dione]] and [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]] and [[Ichnaea]] and [[Themis]] and loud-moaning Amphitrite"; more recent translators<ref>E.g. Jules Cashford, Susan C. Shelmerdine, Apostolos N. Athanassakis.</ref> are unanimous in rendering "Ichnaean Themis" rather than treating "Ichnae" as a separate identity. [[Theseus]] in the submarine halls of his father Poseidon saw the daughters of Nereus dancing with liquid feet, and "august, ox-eyed Amphitrite", who wreathed him with her wedding wreath, according to a fragment of [[Bacchylides]]. [[Jane Ellen Harrison]] recognized in the poetic treatment an authentic echo of Amphitrite's early importance: "It would have been much simpler for Poseidon to recognize his own son… the myth belongs to that early stratum of mythology when Poseidon was not yet god of the sea, or, at least, no-wise supreme there—Amphitrite and the Nereids ruled there, with their servants the Tritons. Even so late as the ''[[Iliad]]'' Amphitrite is not yet 'Neptuni uxor' [Neptune's wife]."<ref>Harrison, "Notes Archaeological and Mythological on Bacchylides" ''The Classical Review'' '''12'''.1 (February 1898, pp. 85–86), p. 86.</ref>

Amphitrite, "the third one who encircles [the sea]",<ref>[[Robert Graves]]. ''[[The Greek Myths]] (1960)''</ref> was so entirely confined in her authority to the sea and the creatures in it that she was almost never associated with her husband, either for purposes of worship or in works of art, except when he was to be distinctly regarded as the god who controlled the sea. An exception may be the [[cult image]] of Amphitrite that [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] saw in the temple of Poseidon at the [[Isthmus of Corinth]] (ii.1.7).

In the arts of vase-painting and mosaic, Amphitrite was distinguishable from the other [[Nereid]]s only by her queenly attributes. In works of art, both ancient ones and post-Renaissance paintings, Amphitrite is represented either enthroned beside Poseidon or driving with him in a chariot drawn by sea-horses (''[[hippocamp]]s'') or other fabulous creatures of the deep, and attended by [[Triton (god)|Tritons]] and [[Nereids]]. She is dressed in queenly robes and has nets in her hair. The pincers of a crab are sometimes shown attached to her temples.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AMPHITRITE - Greek Goddess & Nereid Queen of the Sea |url=https://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Amphitrite.html |access-date=2023-03-15 |website=www.theoi.com}}</ref>

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File:Theseus Athena Amphitrite Louvre G104.jpg|Theseus and Amphitrite clasp hands, with Athena looking on ([[red-figure pottery|red-figure cup]] by [[Euphronios]] and [[Onesimos (vase painter)|Onesimos]], 500–490 BC)
File:Sea thiasos Amphitrite Poseidon Glyptothek Munich 239 front n3.jpg|Sea [[thiasos]] depicting the wedding of [[Poseidon]] and Amphitrite, from the [[Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus]] in the [[Campus Martius|Field of Mars]], [[bas-relief]], [[Roman Republic]], 2nd century BC
File:Affreschi romani - nettuno anfitrine - pompei.JPG|Poseidon and Amphitrite. Ancient Roman fresco (50-79 AD), [[Pompeii]], [[Italy]].
File:JacobdeGheynII-NeptuneandAmphitrite.jpg|''Neptune and Amphitrite'' by [[Jacob de Gheyn II]] (latter 16th-century)
File:Mosaic of Neptune and Amphitrite.jpg|A [[Roman mosaic]] on a wall in the House of Neptune and Amphitrite, [[Herculaneum]], Italy
File:Nicolas Poussin, French - The Birth of Venus - Google Art Project.jpg|''The Triumph of Neptune'' by [[Nicolas Poussin]], showing Amphitrite ''[[velificans]]'' (1634)
File:Mosaique de sol avec le triomphe de Neptune et son épouse Amphitrite (Louvre, Ma 1880)1.jpg|''Triumph of Poseidon and Amphitrite'' showing the couple [[thiasos#Other thiasoi|in procession]], detail of a vast [[Roman mosaic|mosaic]] from [[Cirta]], [[Africa (Roman province)|Roman Africa]] ({{circa|315–325 AD}}, now at the [[Louvre]])
File:Giovanni Battista Crosato, The Triumph of Amphitrite, 1745-1750, NGA 80940.jpg|Drawing of Amphitrite sitting in a sea shell surrounded by her subjects. The Triumph of Amphitrite by [[Giovanni Battista Crosato]] (1745–1750). Held at the [[National Gallery of Art]].
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