In Greek mythology, Amphitrite, queen of the sea, was the wife of which god?
TagMe
Amphitrite.txt
Amphitrite
In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite (; ) was a sea-goddess and wife of Poseidon.  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, the goddess of saltwater. 

Mythography

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 the Bibliotheca, which actually lists her among both the Nereids  and the Oceanids.  Others called her the personification of the sea itself (saltwater).  One of Amphitrite's Oceanid sisters is Perse, wife of the sun god Helios.  Amphitrite's offspring included seals  and dolphins.  Poseidon and Amphitrite had a son, Triton who was a merman, 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). Bibliotheca (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), "moaning Amphitrite" nourishes fishes "in numbers past all counting" (Odyssey xii.119). She shares her Homeric epithet Halosydne ("sea-nourished")  with Thetis  in some sense the sea-nymphs are doublets.

Representation and cult

Though Amphitrite does not figure in Greek 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 "all the chiefest of the goddesses, Dione and Rhea and Ichnaea and Themis and loud-moaning Amphitrite."  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]". 

Amphitrite, "the third one who encircles [the sea]",  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 saw in the temple of Poseidon at the Isthmus of Corinth (ii.1.7).

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, (i.14).

Eustathius said that Poseidon first saw her dancing at Naxos among the other Nereids,  and carried her off.  But in another version of the myth, she fled from his advances to Atlas,  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  and was rewarded by being placed among the stars as the constellation Delphinus. 

In the arts of vase-painting and mosaic, Amphitrite was distinguishable from the other Nereids 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 (hippocamps) or other fabulous creatures of the deep, and attended by 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.

File:Theseus Athena Amphitrite Louvre G104.jpg|Theseus and Amphitrite clasp hands, with Athena looking on (red-figure cup by Euphronios and Onesimos, 500-490 BC)
Image:JacobdeGheynII-NeptuneandAmphitrite.jpg|Neptune and Amphitrite by Jacob de Gheyn II (latter 16th-century)
File:Nicolas Poussin, French - The Birth of Venus - Google Art Project.jpg|The Triumph of Neptune by Nicolas Poussin, showing Amphitrite velificans (1634)
File:Amphitrite Devaulx cour Carree Louvre.jpg|Amphitrite with downturned trident, by François Théodore Devaulx (1866)

Amphitrite legacy

* Amphitrite is the name of a genus of the worm family Terebellidae.
* In poetry, Amphitrite's name is often used for the sea, as a synonym of Thalassa.
* Seven ships of the Royal Navy were named HMS Amphitrite, including Amphitrite (1804).
* At least one ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy was named HM Amphitrite (corvette, in service 1830s).
* Three ships of the United States Navy were named USS Amphitrite.
* An asteroid, 29 Amphitrite, is named for her.

* In 1936 Australia used an image of Amphitrite on a postage stamp as a classical allusion for the submarine communications cable across Bass Strait from Apollo Bay, Victoria to Stanley, Tasmania.
* The name of the former Greek Royal Yacht.
* Amphitrite Pool, a shallow ceremonial pool on the grounds of the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York contains a statue of Amphitrite. When First Classmen are taking their Third Mate or Third Assistant Engineer License Examinations, it is considered good luck if they bounce a coin off Amphitrite into a seashell at her feet.

Notes
Earth Shaker God Of The Seas Poseidon, The Sea King Mythology Neptune Neptune (Roman religion and mythology) Neptune Equester Aegaeus Posiden Poseidon facts Posidon Greek god of earthquakes Poseidons love for demeter Poseidon (mythology) Poseidon Poseidon Enosichthon Poseidone Poiseidon Clieto Posseidon Enosichthon Posedian Posiedon
poiseidon god of seas posidon posedian enosichthon posseidon poseidone poseidons love for demeter neptune roman religion and mythology poseidon sea king earth shaker posiden clieto aegaeus greek god of earthquakes neptune equester poseidon mythology posiedon poseidon facts poseidon enosichthon poseidon mythology neptune
poseidon
WikipediaEntity
Poseidon
 In Greek mythology, on the Tritty, Queen of the sea, was the wife of which God. 

 In Greek Greek name in the breakdown for the Queen did the a Voter was a wildlife God for the is a devastating and understanding and understanding of the sea correct and terms or something else entirely entirely.