Triton (mythology) "The Little Mermaid", inspired by Triton, as an undersea king, the father of the title character. In "The Little Mermaid", Triton has seven daughters for the Seven Seas, the youngest named Ariel, of whom he is very overprotective. Though, this character (and all the other ones in the Disney movie) are actually based in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. Triton (mythology) Triton (; "Tritōn") is a mythological Greek god, the messenger of the sea. He is the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, god and goddess of the sea respectively, and is herald for his father. He is usually represented as
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