Chione, pregnant with Eumolpus, was frightened of her father's reaction so she threw the baby into the ocean.
Poseidon looked after him and brought him to shore in Ethiopia, where his sister, Benthesikyme, raised the child, who then married one of her daughters.
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But in another version of the myth, she then fled from him to the farthest ends of the sea, where the dolphin of Poseidon found her, and was rewarded by being placed among the stars.
In works of artAmphitrite is represented either enthroned beside him, or driving with him in a chariot drawn by sea-horses or other fabulous creatures of the deep, and attended by Tritons and Nereids.
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But in another version of the she then fled from him to the ends of the sea where the dolphin Poseidon found her and was rewarded by placed among the stars.
In works of artAmphitrite is represented enthroned beside him or driving with him a chariot drawn by sea-horses or other creatures of the deep and attended by Tritons and Nereids.
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After his birth he was thrown by his mother into the sea, but his father rescued him and brought him to ^Ethiopia, to his daughter Bentheslkyme.
When he was grown up, Endius, the husband of Benthesikyme, gave him one of his daughters in marriage, but he desired the other as well, and was accordingly banished, and came with his son Ismarus or Imma-radus to the Thracian king TSgyrius in Boeotia.
As successor to this king he marched to the assistance of his friends the Eleusinians against the Athenian Erech-theus, but was slain with his sou.
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According to ApollodorusApollodorus (3.15.4) Chione daughter of Boreas Boreas and Orithyia Orithyia, pregnant with Eumolpus by Posiedon, was frightened of her father's reaction so she threw the baby into the ocean.
Poseidon looked after him and brought him to shore in Ethiopia Ethiopia, where BenthesikymeBenthesikyme, a daughter of Poseidon and AmphitriteAmphitrite, raised the child, who then married one of Benthesikyme's two daughters by her Ethiopian husband.
Eumolpus however loved a different daughter and Benthesikyme sent him in exile to Thrace Thrace.
Pictures of Bendis showed her as a Thermodontine rather than Libyan Amazon however, wearing a short cloak, knee length dress, high boots and Phrygian cap with a spear in her left hand and a cup in her right.
Lemnos may also be the source of her title Benthesikyme 'wave of the deep.' The women of these areas gave her grain offerings, and sacrificed bulls to her in rituals similar to those of Artemis Tauropolos.
Early inhabitants of the island were called Sinties (a Thrakian tribe), and the island itself was known as Sinteis 'the ravener.' Lemnos means 'fiery,' so originally Bendis may have been the maiden aspect of the island's divine trinity.
Amphitrite may also be a Moon Goddess or mother of a triple Moon Goddess, as suggested by Robert Graves210.
The three Goddesses were called Tritone 'third queen,' Rhodes 'rosy coloured,' and Benthesikyme 'wave of the deep,' New, Full, and Old Moon respectively.
When shown in art, Amphitrite wore a fishnet over her hair and a crab claw crown.
Amphitrite, on her try to protect her virginity, refused Poseidon's proposal and flew to the Atlas Mountains to escape, but Poseidon persisted and sent his messenger Delphinus, the king of the dolphins, to locate the mermaid and win her heart.
Amphitrite married Poseidon and together they had two daughters, Rhodes and Benthesikyme, and a son called Triton, who was a sea god with the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish.
The Contest of Poseidon with Athena for the city of Athens
