Amphitrite, a nereid or oceanid, the wife of Neptune and goddess of the sea, mother of Triton, Rhode or Rhodos, and Benthesicyme. Jealous of Scylla, she threw some magic herbs into the well in which her rival was accustomed to bathe, and thus transformed her into a monster with six heads and twelve feet. In ancient works of art Amphitrite is always distinguished from Aphrodite by a net which keeps her hair in order, and by the claws of a crab on her forehead.