AMPHITRITE, in mythology of ancient Greece, a sea goddess, daughter of Nereus (or Oceanus) and wife of Poseidon. It was said that Poseidon saw her first dancing at Naxos among the other Nereids, and carried her off. She then fled from him over the sea, but was found by the dolphin of Poseidon, which was afterwards set among the stars. In works of art she is rep resented 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.