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
Poseidon (short story) a tour of the sea. The short story consists of two paragraphs. The narrative perspective is not established and shifts between the paragraphs. An anonymous narrator tells the story, while an impersonal perspective by someone superior adds ironic comments. The second paragraph is dominated by Poseidon's dissatisfaction, but again he is not the narrator. 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