Amphitrite Nereus dancing with liquid feet, and "august, ox-eyed Amphitrite", who wreathed him with her wedding wreath, according to a fragment of Bacchylides. Jane Ellen Harrison recognized in the poetic treatment an authentic echo of Amphitrite's early importance: "It would have been much simpler for Poseidon to recognize his own son... the myth belongs to that early stratum of mythology when Poseidon was not yet god of the sea, or, at least, no-wise supreme there—Amphitrite and the Nereids ruled there, with their servants the Tritons. Even so late as the "Iliad" Amphitrite is not yet 'Neptuni uxor'" [Neptune's wife]". Amphitrite, "the
Achaeus (son of Poseidon) a colony on the said country naming it after themselves. The only single source of the accounts of Achaeus is recounted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his "Roman Antiquities" about the Pelasgian race's migration in connection with Achaeus. Achaeus (son of Poseidon) In Greek mythology, Achaeus or Achaios (; Ancient Greek: "Akhaios" derived from "achos" "αχος" "grief, pain, woe"), has been said to be the eponym of Achaea, otherwise attributed to another Achaeus, the son of Xuthus, son of Deucalion. Achaeus is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea and Larissa, daughter of Pelasgus, the son of Triopas and