Tritonis

A nymph of Lake Tritonis in Libya, who according an to ancient tradition was the mother of Athena by Poseidon.1 By Amphithemis she became the mother of Caphaurus and Nasamon.2

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References

Notes

  1. Herodotus. Histories iv, 180; Pindar. Pythian Odes iv, 20.
  2. Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica iv, 1495.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.