Source Verification: Amphitrite

Every claim below is either what a named ancient source attests, in its own line or section, or a point where the sources themselves disagree.

What the Sources Attest

Is Amphitrite a Nereid or an Oceanid?

A Nereid. Hesiod's Theogony places her among the fifty daughters of the sea god Nereus and the Oceanid Doris, distinct from the three thousand Oceanid daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, even though her eventual marriage to Poseidon makes her the sea's ruling queen rather than one of its lesser nymphs.

Source: Hesiod, Theogony 240-264

Who is Amphitrite's son?

Triton, born to her and Poseidon. Hesiod describes him living with his parents in a golden palace beneath the waves and ruling the depths of the sea in his own right.

Source: Hesiod, Theogony 930-933

Does Amphitrite have her own myths the way Poseidon does?

Barely. Outside her marriage and Triton's birth, the surviving classical record gives her almost no independent action. Homer's Odyssey uses her name three times purely as a poetic word for the sea's waves rather than as a character doing anything, which is a strong sign that later Greek storytelling treated her as a fixed title, queen of the sea, more than as a figure with her own plot.

Source: Homer, Odyssey 3.90-91

How does Amphitrite connect to the story of Scylla and Charybdis?

Not directly, but the same conversation names her. Warning Odysseus about the Wandering Rocks, Circe describes the crags as guarded by "the great wave of Amphitrite" and tells him it is safer to risk Scylla and Charybdis instead, since no ship but the Argo has ever survived the Rocks - making Amphitrite's stretch of sea the alternative danger Odysseus deliberately avoids.

Source: Homer, Odyssey 12.59-72

Does Rome's Salacia count as Amphitrite's Roman equivalent?

Not cleanly. Neptune himself is a direct equation with Poseidon, but his Roman wife Salacia is treated in Roman religion as a distinctly native goddess of the salt sea rather than a straightforward translation of Amphitrite, unlike most of the paired Greek and Roman gods on this site.

Source: Hesiod, Theogony 930-933

Where Accounts Differ

whether Rome's Salacia is a true equivalent of Amphitrite

Amphitrite has almost no independent narrative in surviving classical sources beyond her marriage to Poseidon and Triton's birth; Homer's repeated use of her name as a plain poetic word for the sea itself is treated here as evidence of that thinness, not papered over with invented incident.

Sources

Primary sources

Hesiod, Theogony 240-264
Hesiod, Theogony 930-933
Homer, Odyssey 3.90-91
Homer, Odyssey 12.59-72