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In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite (Ἀμφιτρίτη;) (not to be confused with Aphrodite) was a sea-goddess.[1] Under the influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became merely the consort of Poseidon, and was further diminished by poets to a symbolic representation of the sea. In Roman mythology, the consort of Neptune, a comparatively minor figure, was Salacia.[2]

Amphitrite was a daughter of Nereus and Doris (and thus a Nereid), according to Hesiod's Theogony, but of Oceanus and Tethys (and thus an Oceanid), according to Apollodorus, who actually lists her among both the Nereids[3] and the Oceanids[4]. Others called her the personification of the sea itself. Amphitrite's offspring included seals [5] and dolphins.[6] By her, Poseidon had a son, Triton, and a daughter, Rhode (if this Rhode was not actually fathered by Poseidon on Halia or was not the daughter of Asopus as others claim). Apollodorus (3.15.4) also mentions a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite named Benthesikyme.

Amphitrite is not fully personified in the Homeric epics: "out on the open sea, in Amphitrite's breakers" (Odyssey iii.101); she shares her Homeric epithet Halosydne ("sea-nourished")[7] with Thetis[8]: in some sense the sea-nymphs are doublets.
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Beautifull drawing and very good and rich description.

On theoi.com a third daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite is mentioned: Kymopolea. She was married to the Hekatoncheir ('hundred-armed') Briareos, who's also called Aigaion what refers to the Aegean sea. They had a daughter: Oiolyka.

And talking about Aphrodite... read somewhere that Amphitrite sometimes was identified with Aphrodite Pelagia.

However, great drawing!