If you use any of the content on this page in your own work, please use the code below to cite this page as the source of the content. Despite Poseidon’s connection to chariots and ships, Athena was the first to make one of each.Athena, on the other hand, gave them the olive tree. To sway the people in his favor, Poseidon made it spring at the Acropolis. He and Athena competed for possession of the city of Athens.He then transformed into a stallion and pursued her. She refused his advances by turning herself into a mare. One of his most notable dalliances involved his sister Demeter.He was also the biological father of Orion, Polyphemus, Pelias, and many others.He and Medusa conceived the flying horse, Pegasus – one of many mythological creatures.Their union produced Triton, who was half-human, half-fish. Poseidon was the husband of Amphitrite, a Nereid.His grudge against Odysseus is one theme in the Odyssey.However, Zeus commanded him to withdraw from the battlefield, and he reluctantly obeyed. Poseidon assisted the Greeks in the Trojan war.His primary means of transportation was a chariot pulled by horses.At times, however, his efforts were appreciated. He was similar to Zeus in that he liked to exert power over women and flaunt his rugged masculinity.Poseidon was moody by nature: his temperament was unstable at best, and his emotional fluctuations often resulted in violence.Zeus also was accorded supreme authority on earth and on Mount Olympus. Poseidon received the sea as his domain, Hades got the Underworld and Zeus took the sky. Then he and his brothers Poseidon and Hades divided up creation. He was at Mount Olympus more often than his palace. Having vanquished his father and the other Titans, Zeus imprisoned most of them in the underworld of Tartarus. Poseidon possessed a palace, made of gems and coral, located on the ocean floor.This earned him the nickname “Earth-shaker.” Poseidon could strike the ground with his trident to produce an earthquake.He wielded the trident or three-pronged spear, and this image of him is reflected in art.Poseidon was worshipped as a fertility god.It stands to reason that, because of his influence on the waters, he was worshipped in connection with navigation.Poseidon was allotted his dominion after the fall of the Titans.Poseidon was most notably the God of the sea and the protector of all waters sailors relied upon him for safe passage.There is only one reference to this divide, by Homer in the Iliad. Zeus drew the skies, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the seas. However, in some folklore stories it is believed that Poseidon, like Zeus, was not swallowed by Cronus because his mother Rhea who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to have given birth to a colt, which was devoured by Cronus instead.Īfter the gods defeated the Titans, the world was divided into three and Zeus, Hades and Poseidon drew straws to decide which they would rule. He is the son of Cronus and Rhea and was swallowed by his father along with Hades, Demeter, Hestia and Hera. He was known to be vengeful when insulted. Poseidon was god of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses and is considered one of the most bad-tempered, moody and greedy Olympian gods.
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