Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Amymone.
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Neptune and Amymone
Unknown (after classical type / MET print), 16th–18th century
Metropolitan Museum print of Neptune/Poseidon with Amymone — the Danaid he rescues from a satyr and rewards with the Lernaean spring, mother of Nauplius.
Amymone Rescued by Poseidon
Rupert Bunny, c. 1913
Bunny's Symbolist canvas: Poseidon lifts Amymone from the satyr's pursuit — Danaus' daughter as modern mythic nude, the Argive spring-myth restaged in oil.
Amymone
Girolamo Mocetto, c. 1500–1520
Mocetto's engraving isolates Amymone — the Danaid of the Poseidon encounter, Venetian print culture's face for the Lernaean bride.
Poseidon and Amymone (Paphos mosaic)
Unknown (Roman mosaic), 3rd–4th century
House of Dionysus, Paphos: Poseidon and Amymone in tesserae — the Cypriot floor that fixed the Danaid's sea-god rescue for late antiquity.
Amymone (Aison Painter oinochoe)
Aison Painter, c. 440–430 BC
Kerameikos oinochoe: Amymone among satyrs — Attic red-figure of the Danaid before Poseidon's rescue, hydria in hand for her father's water-quest.