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Amphitrite

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Amphitrite
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The current source names Amphitrite only through “the waves of Amphitrite” and does not explicitly call this referent a deity.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

3
·Uncertain

Telemachus imagines that Ulysses may have been lost at sea amid Amphitrite’s waves.

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“on the mainland, or was lost at sea amid the waves of Amphitrite. Therefore I am suppliant”
·Reported

Amphitrite breeds many great monsters of the deep.

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“Amphitrite breeds many such, and I know that Neptune is very angry with me”
·Reported

Amphitrite’s deep-blue waves beat against the Wanderers with terrific fury.

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“the deep blue waves of Amphitrite beat with terrific fury”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

3
·Uncertain
“lost at sea amid the waves of Amphitrite”
·Reported
“Amphitrite breeds many such”
·Reported
“the deep blue waves of Amphitrite”

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 11

‘Nestor,’ said he, ‘son of Neleus, honour to the Achaean name, you ask whence we come, and I will tell you. We come from Ithaca under Neritum, {28} and the matter about which I would speak is of private not public import. I seek news of my unhappy father Ulysses, who is said to have sacked the town of Troy in company with yourself. We know what fate befell each one of the other heroes who fought at Troy, but as regards Ulysses heaven has hidden from us the knowledge even that he is dead at all, for no one can certify us in what place he perished, nor say whether he fell in battle on the mainland, or was lost at sea amid the waves of Amphitrite. Therefore I am suppliant at your knees, if haply you may be pleased to tell me of his melancholy end, whether you saw it with your own eyes, or heard it from some other traveller, for he was a man born to trouble. Do not soften things out of any pity for me, but tell me in all plainness exactly what you saw. If my brave father Ulysses ever did you loyal service, either by word or deed, when you Achaeans were harassed among the Trojans, bear it in mind now as in my favour and tell me truly all.’