![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Triton is "sea-hued" according to Ovid and "his shoulders barnacled with sea-shells". In literature, Triton carries a trident in Accius's Medea fragment. The original Greek Triton only sometimes bore a trident. Its sound was so cacophonous that when loudly blown, it put the giants to flight, who imagined it to be the roar of a dark wild beast. He was "trumpeter and bugler" to Oceanus and Poseidon. Triton in later times became associated with possessing a conch shell, which he blew like a trumpet to calm or raise the waves. Statue at Wasserspiele Hellbrunn, Hellbrunn Palace, Salzburg, Austria Unlike his father Poseidon who is always fully anthropomorphic in ancient art (this has only changed in modern popular culture), Triton's lower half is that of a fish, while the top half is presented in a human figure. Poseidon's golden palace was located at Aegae on Euboea in one passage of Homer's Iliad 12.21. Triton dwelt with his parents in underwater golden palaces. He was the ruler (possessor) of the depths of the sea, who is either "dreadful" or "mighty" ( δεινός) according to the epithet given him by Hesiod. Triton was the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite according to Hesiod's Theogony. Moreover, according to Apollonius Rhodius, he married the Oceanid of said region, Libya. Triton of Lake Tritonis of ancient Libya is a namesake mythical figure that appeared and aided the Argonauts. In English literature, Triton is portrayed as the messenger or herald for the god Poseidon. At some time during the Greek and Roman era, Triton(s) became a generic term for a merman (mermen) in art and literature. Triton is usually represented as a merman, with the upper body of a human and the tailed lower body of a fish. Later he is often depicted as having a conch shell he would blow like a trumpet. Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. Trítōn) is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, god and goddess of the sea respectively. Triton ( / ˈ t r aɪ t ɒ n/ Greek: Τρίτων, translit. ![]()
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