Pallas (daughter of Triton) 'Sonnets For Helen': Sonnet 12, Line 13: "Ou bien tu es Pallas, ou bien l'une des Graces." (Translation: "Or perhaps you are Pallas, or one of the Graces.") Pallas (daughter of Triton) In Greek mythology, Pallas (/ˈpæləs/; Ancient Greek: Παλλάς) was the daughter of Triton, son of Poseidon and messenger of the seas. After Athena was born fully armed from Zeus' forehead, Triton acting as a foster parent to the goddess raised her alongside his own daughter, Pallas. The sea god taught both girls the arts of war. During an athletics festival, Pallas and Athena fought with spears in a
Amphitrite third one who encircles [the sea]", was so entirely confined in her authority to the sea and the creatures in it that she was almost never associated with her husband, either for purposes of worship or in works of art, except when he was to be distinctly regarded as the god who controlled the sea. An exception may be the cult image of Amphitrite that Pausanias saw in the temple of Poseidon at the Isthmus of Corinth (ii.1.7). Pindar, in his sixth Olympian Ode, recognized Poseidon's role as "great god of the sea, husband of Amphitrite, goddess of the golden