Triton
deity figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
great, wide-ruling Triton · that sea Triton
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Mythological sea being with a hybrid human-animal form, cited as an example of a shape no one would wish to have.
And if we wished to invent and join shapes for ourselves, like that sea Triton who is painted riding upon swimming beasts harnessed to a human body, you would not wish to be such a thing.
so that now you would believe a broken storm-cloud is rolling, now that some rock, driven by the winds or by tempests, is being snatched aloft, or that round whirlwinds are arising, struck by the clashing waves — unless the sea is stirring up some wreck of the land, or perhaps Triton, overturning with his trident the caverns beneath the very roots, heaves from the depths a mass of rock to the sky …
Cyclops
Sea deity invoked by Silenus in his oath of innocence
O Cyclops, by thy sire Poseidon, by mighty Triton and Nereus, by Calypso and the daughters of Nereus, by the sacred billows and all the race of fishes!
The Histories
Sea deity associated with the Tritonian lake who guided Jason's ship to safety in exchange for the Argo's tripod and is honored in local sacrifice.
but the dwellers by the Tritonian lake sacrifice to Athena chiefly, and next to Triton and Poseidon.
Jason did, and Triton then showed them the channel out of the shallows and set the tripod in his own temple;
As for Athena, they say that she was daughter of Poseidon and the Tritonian lake, and that, being for some reason angry at her father, she gave herself to Zeus, who made her his own daughter.
Theogony
A sea-god, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, ruler of the sea's depths.
And of Amphitrite and the loud-roaring Earth-Shaker was born great, wide-ruling Triton, and he owns the depths of the sea, living with his dear mother and the lord his father in their golden house, an awful god.