Amphitrite (Ἀμφιτρίτη) combines amphi (on both sides) + tritō (sea). **The Greek queen of the sea — Nereid daughter of Nereus and Doris, wife of Poseidon** — counterpart of the Roman Salacia. **At first she fled Poseidon's advances and hid among Atlas in the far west**; he sent a dolphin (later placed in the heavens as the constellation Delphinus) to woo her, and she relented. **Mother of Triton**, the merman-herald of the sea. **Depicted alongside her husband on countless Greek vases, in mosaic at Herculaneum, and in Botticelli's lost original *Birth of Venus***.
Featured throughout Hesiod's *Theogony* and Apollonius of Rhodes's *Argonautica*.
Amphitrite reduces to three — the number of sea-queen.