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Triton in Greek mythology, was primarily a son of Nepture, by Amphitrite, who lived with his father and mother on the bottom of the sea in a golden palace. Hence the name was applied to any daemon of the Mediterranean Sea, who rode, sometimes upon horses, at other times on monsters of the deep, and occasionally appeared, assisting other deities in riding.
Triton also had an ability that went beyond his father. He carried a gnarled conch shell that would quiet or enrage the sea at his whim when he played it as a trumpet. It was said that the sound was so loud and threatening that even giants would flee, fearing some invincible beast from the wild.Far underneath the sea was the golden palace where Triton and his parents lived and ruled.
Triton (/ ˈ t r aɪ t ɒ n /; Greek: Τρίτων, translit. Trítōn) is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. Later he is often depicted as having a conch shell he would blow like a trumpet. [citation needed]
Triton. A son of Poseidon and Amphitrite (or Celaeno), who dwelt with his father and mother in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea, or according to Homer 1 at Aegae. 2 Later writers describe this divinity of the Mediterranean as riding over the sea on horses or other sea-monsters. 3 Sometimes also Tritons are mentioned in the plural, and ...
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PARENTS
POSEIDON & AMPHITRITE (Hesiod Theogony 939, Apollodorus 1.28, Hyginus Preface)
OFFSPRING
PALLAS (Apollodorus 3.144) KALLISTE (by Libya) (Apollonius Rhodius 4.1734) TRITEIA (Pausanias 7.22.8) THE TRITONIDES (Philostratus Elder 2.18)
TRITON (Tritôn). 1. A son of Poseidon and Amphitrite (or Celaeno), who dwelt with his father and mother in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea, or according to Homer (Il. xiii. 20) at Aegae. (Hes. Theog. 930, &c.; Apollod. i. 4. § 6.) Later writers describe this divinity of the Mediterranean as riding over the sea on horses or other sea-monste...
THE SEA-GOD TRITON
Hesiod, Theogony 930 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : "And of Amphitrite and the loud-roaring Earth-Shaker [Poseidon] was born great, wide-ruling Triton, and he owns the depths of the sea, living with his dear mother and the lord his father in their golden house, an awful god." Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 28 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "Poseidon married Amphitrite, and had as children Triton and Rhode." Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 2...
HERACLES WRESTLES TRITON
Herakles is depicted wrestling Triton in early Athenian vase painting (see images on this page). The story is probably a variation of the tale in which the hero captures Nereus, the old man of the sea, to learn the location of the golden apples of the Hesperides -- the elderly deity being replaced by his vigorous, young grandson as the wrestler. Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 114 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "[The] Nymphai (Nymphs) who were daughters of Zeus and Themi...
TRITON GOD OF LAKE TRITONIS & THE ARGONAUTS
Pindar, Pythian Ode 4. 19 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) : "[The Argonauts were porting their ship across the Libyan desert in the vicinity of Lake Tritonis, when they encountered Triton :] A sign there was to tell that Thera shall prove the mother of great cities, when leaping from the prow where Lake Tritonis pours to the sea, Euphemos (Euphemus) took the gift, token of a host's friendship, from a god [Triton] in mortal guise ho gave a clod of earth; and from aloft, to mark the...
GREEK
1. Hesiod, Theogony - Greek Epic C8th - 7th B.C. 2. Pindar, Odes - Greek Lyric C5th B.C. 3. Herodotus, Histories - Greek History C5th B.C. 4. Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D. 5. Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica - Greek Epic C3rd B.C. 6. Lycophron, Alexandra - Greek Poetry C3rd B.C. 7. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History - Greek History C1st B.C. 8. Pausanias, Description of Greece - Greek Travelogue C2nd A.D. 9. Philostratus the Elder, Imagines - Greek Rhetoric C...
ROMAN
1. Hyginus, Fabulae - Latin Mythography C2nd A.D. 2. Hyginus, Astronomica - Latin Mythography C2nd A.D. 3. Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st B.C. - C1st A.D. 4. Ovid, Heroides - Latin Poetry C1st B.C. - C1st A.D. 5. Propertius, Elegies - Latin Elegy C1st B.C. 6. Cicero, De Natura Deorum - Latin Rhetoric C1st B.C. 7. Valerius Flaccus, The Argonautica - Latin Epic C1st A.D. 8. Statius, Thebaid - Latin Epic C1st A.D. 9. Statius, Silvae - Latin Poetry C1st A.D.
OTHER SOURCES
Other references not currently quoted here: Claudian 28.378, Orphic Argonautica 337, Tzetzes on Lycophron 34 & 75.
Mar 22, 2021 · The Sea God Triton. Poseidon was the ruler of the sea in Greek mythology. His wife was Amphitrite, one of the Oceanids. While Amphitrite was the mother of all sea life, she and Poseidon were said to have had only one son according to most sources. His name was Triton and he embodied his parents’ realm.
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Triton is a Greek god, often depicted as a merman, who serves as the messenger of the sea. He is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea and earthquakes, and Amphitrite, the goddess of the sea. Triton carries a conch shell, which he uses to calm or stir up the waves, acting as a bridge between his father’s authority and the natural world of the ocean.
