Amphitrite smiled, but her smile was bitter, not bright.
“Perhaps he loved me. Perhaps he loves me still. Or perhaps his desire to marry me was simply because it was his way of asserting his dominion over the ocean.”
“But wasn’t he already king?” asked Yasmin.
“Early Greeks practiced matrilineal inheritance, which means they passed property through the women,” said Thanos. “In historical times it was different, but early on, kings ruled by right of marriage, not in their own right. Some of the myths echo that earlier pattern.”
“Yes, Poseidon may have been thinking in those terms. One of my grandfathers, Pontus, was the sea; my other grandfather, Oceanus, the great surrounding ocean. What better way to lay a claim to both than by marrying me, the eldest goddess related to both aquatic f
