Tritona minor sea deity, was the son ofPoseidon and Amphitrite, sometimes of Oceanus and Tethys. As the herald of Poseidon, Triton announced his approach, and summoned other marine deities. He blew through a conch-shell horn a loud blast to agitate the sea with storms, and a gentle note when a storm was to be hushed into rest.

ACTIVITIES:
Triton activity

KEY TEST WORDS:
Triton, trumpeter of the sea. Symbol: conch-shell horn, half­man, half­fish.

The Lesser Deities

The Underworld

Footnotes:
In the war with the Giants he rendered considerable service to Zeus, by raising such a frightful din with his shrill trumpet, that the Giants, fearing some fresh danger, retired. Triton is represented in art as a being of human form down to his hips, covered with small scales, holding a sea-shell in his hands, the lower part forming the body and tail of a dolphin.

SOURCES:
Jane Smith
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Edward Tripp's "Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology"
"Manual of Mythology" by Alexander S. Murray.