T r i t o n i a
Tritonia is an epithet applied to
Athena. It is used by Pausanias when he tells us that [4] About fifty
stades from the chasms made in the mountains I have mentioned is the city,
founded, say the Pheneatians, by Pheneus, an aboriginal. Their acropolis
is precipitous on all sides, mostly so naturally, but a few parts have
been artificially strengthened, to make it more secure. On the acropolis
here is a temple of Athena surnamed Tritonia, but of it I found ruins only
remaining. (Pausanias,
Description of Greece: book 8, chapter 14, section 4 [Arcadia])
Also Vergilius Maro reports that Fierce Juno leads
resistless onset at the Scaean gate, and summons from the ships the league
of powers, wearing her wrathful sword. On yonder height behold Tritonia
in the citadel clothed with the lightning and her Gorgon-shield! Unto the
Greeks great Jove himself renews their courage and their power; 't is he
thrusts on the gods themselves against the Trojan arms. (P.
Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams): book 2, line 588)
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