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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. [8] Eustathius said that Poseidon first saw her dancing at Naxos among the other Nereids, [9] and carried her off. [10]
Halia was a daughter of Thalassa (the personification of the sea), and sister to the Telchines; it is not clear who her father was, if she had one at all. [3]The sea-god Poseidon fell in love with Halia, and fathered six sons and one daughter, Rhodos, on her, [4] who later became the wife of the sun-god Helios and the one after whom the island of Rhodes was named.
[8] [9] [10] She was thus the sister of Aeëtes, Circe and Perses of Colchis. In some accounts, Pasiphaë's mother was identified as the island-nymph Crete herself. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Like her doublet [ clarification needed ] Europa, the consort of Zeus , her origins were in the East, in her case at the earliest-known Kartvelian-speaking polity of ...
The two, however, defended themselves and, with the aid of Poseidon, killed Theano's sons. She then committed suicide and the brothers fled to the shepherds who had found them. Having found out about their true descent from Poseidon, they released their natural mother Melanippe from prison, and Poseidon restored her sight. [3]
Cercyon had his daughter buried alive but Poseidon turned her into the spring, Alope, near Eleusis. [ 203 ] A mortal woman named Cleito once lived on an isolated island; Poseidon fell in love with the human mortal and created a dwelling sanctuary at the top of a hill near the middle of the island and surrounded the dwelling with rings of water ...
In Greek and Roman mythology, Corone (Ancient Greek: Κορώνη, romanized: Korṓnē, lit. 'crow' [1] pronounced [korɔ̌ːnɛː]) is a young woman who attracted the attention of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and was saved by Athena, the goddess of wisdom.
Her possible brothers were Erysichthon [2] and Phorbas. [3] Iphimedea had by Poseidon the twins Otus and Ephialtes who were called the Aloadae after their stepfather. [4] One account called these men's natural father as Aloeus, husband and paternal uncle of Iphimede. [5] The latter mothered as well Pancratis [6] (or Pancrato [7]) to Aloeus.
Evadne, a daughter of Strymon and Neaera, wife of Argus (king of Argos), mother of Ecbasus, Peiras, Epidaurus and Criasus. [1] Evadne, a daughter of Poseidon and Pitane [2] who was raised by Aepytus of Arcadia. She experienced the joys of her first love with Apollo. However, when her consequent pregnancy was discovered by Aepytus, he was ...