Triton 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.
Attic black-figure hydria, depicting Triton fought by Heracles.
Triton blowing a conch. Statue at Wasserspiele Hellbrunn, Hellbrunn Palace, Salzburg, Austria
Relief of Triton from a pillar in the Odeon of Agrippa in the Ancient Agora of Athens, Greece.
Attic black-figure hydria attributed to the Rycroft Painter, dating c. 520–c. 510 BCE, depicting Heracles wrestling Triton, Eskenazi Museum of Art
In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite was the goddess of the sea, the queen of the sea, and her consort is Poseidon. She was a daughter of Nereus and Doris. Under the influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became the consort of Poseidon and was later used as a symbolic representation of the sea. Her Roman counterpart is Salacia, a comparatively minor figure, and the goddess of saltwater.
Amphitrite with downturned trident, by François Théodore Devaulx (1866)
Amphitrite ("Aphirita") bearing a trident on a pinax from Corinth (575–550 BC).
Theseus and Amphitrite clasp hands, with Athena looking on (red-figure cup by Euphronios and Onesimos, 500–490 BC)
Sea thiasos depicting the wedding of Poseidon and Amphitrite, from the Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus in the Field of Mars, bas-relief, Roman Republic, 2nd century BC
