![]() Naxos Hosts Finals of Greek Freestyle Windsurf Tour 2015 and Naxian Freestyle Contest v.2.A Dionysian Carnival on Naxos - Event Program.Plaka beach in Naxos among best Mediterranean Beaches.Naxos: Lush Greek island delivers the good life.Up in the villa in Naxos, Greece by Anthony Bourdain. ![]() Kedros Villas wins Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence 2016.The Dionysian Carnival of Naxos 2017 - Calendar of events.The Myth of Poseidon and Amphitrite | Naxos, 24 Feb.Greek island of Naxos celebrates Carnival with Torch Parade.Naxos: Introducing the most underrated Greek island.Naxos Adventure Rally - 28th April to 1st May 2017.Bollywood takes Naxos by storm and goes viral.Kedros Villas wins Guest Review Award 2017.2nd Naxos Trail Race - 20 to 22 April 2018.Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean.Neanderthals on Naxos! - 14th April to 31st May 2018.KEDROS VILLAS WINS TRAVELLERS' CHOICE TRIP ADVISOR AWARD FOR 2020.Her Roman equivalent was Salacia whose name means “the salty one.” Amphitrite was essentially the same as the primordial sea-goddess Thalassa. Her name is probably derived from the Greek words amphis and tris, “the surrounding third.” Her son Tritôn was similarly named “of the third.” Clearly “the third” is the sea, although the reason for the term is obscure. Sometimes her hair is enclosed with a net and her brow adorned with a pair of crab-claw “horns”. In mosaic art the goddess usually rides beside her husband in a chariot drawn by fish-tailed horses or hippokampoi. The dolphin-god Delphin eventually tracked her down and persuaded her to return to wed the sea-king.Īmphitrite was depicted in Greek vase painting as a young woman, often raising her hand in a pinching gesture. When Poseidon first sought Amphitrite’s hand in marriage, she fled his advances, and hid herself away near Atlas in the Ocean stream at the far ends of the earth. She was the female personification of the sea–the loud-moaning mother of fish, seals and dolphins. ![]() AMPHITRITE was the goddess-queen of the sea, wife of Poseidon, and eldest of the fifty Nereides. ![]()
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