. . "This article is about the Ancient Greek Goddess. For the asteroid, see 29 Amphitrite.In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite (/\u00E6mf\u0268\u02C8tra\u026Ati\u02D0/; Greek: \u1F08\u03BC\u03C6\u03B9\u03C4\u03C1\u03AF\u03C4\u03B7) was a sea-goddess and wife of Poseidon. Under the influence of the Olympian pantheon, she became merely the consort of Poseidon, and was further diminished by poets to a symbolic representation of the sea. In Roman mythology, the consort of Neptune, a comparatively minor figure, was Salacia, the goddess of saltwater."@en . .