Triton (mythology)
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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 w
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
Old Man of the Sea
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In Greek mythology, the Old Man of the Sea was a figure who could be identified as any of several water-gods, generally Nereus or Proteus, but also Triton, Pontus, Phorcys or Glaucus. He is the father
Triton (mythology)
…but no literature survives that tells the story. In fewer examples, the Greek pottery depicting apparently the same motif are labeled "Nereus" or "Old Man of the Sea" instead, and among these, Nereus' struggle with Herakles is attested in literature (Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca). "Old Man of the Sea" is a generic…
After being shipwrecked Sinbad the Sailor is enslaved by the "Old Man of the Sea".