Amphitrite both the Nereids "and" the Oceanids. Others called her the personification of the sea itself (saltwater). Amphitrite's offspring included seals and dolphins. Poseidon and Amphitrite had a son, Triton who was a merman, and a daughter, Rhodos (if this Rhodos was not actually fathered by Poseidon on Halia or was not the daughter of Asopus as others claim). "Bibliotheca" (3.15.4) also mentions a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite named Benthesikyme. Amphitrite is not fully personified in the Homeric epics: "out on the open sea, in Amphitrite's breakers" ("Odyssey" iii.101), "moaning Amphitrite" nourishes fishes "in numbers past all counting" ("Odyssey" xii.119).
Poseidon (short story) Poseidon (short story) "Poseidon" (German: "Poseidon") is a small piece of prose of Franz Kafka, written in 1920. The sea god Poseidon is presented here as a disgruntled manager of the waters, which he does not really know. In the fall of 1920, Kafka broke away from his lover Milena Jesenska. It was created by a productive push a series of short prose pieces, including "The Refusal". Kafka did not publish them, therefore his friend Max Brod titled them when he published them. Poseidon is sitting at the desk and makes calculations on the waters he has to manage. For