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The youngest child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Brother and husband of Hera and brother of Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, and Hestia. He had many affairs with goddesses and mortals, such as his sister Demeter and Leto, mortals Leda and Alcmene, and more. [27] His symbols include the thunderbolt, eagle, oak tree, bull, scepter, and scales. Hera: Juno
In the Iliad, he and his brothers split the cosmos between themselves, with Poseidon receiving the sea. [157] His wife is Amphitrite , with whom he lives below the ocean, though he has affairs with numerous women, producing sometimes dangerous or monstrous children. [ 158 ]
Not all of Poseidon's children were human. His other children include Polyphemus (the Cyclops ) and, finally, Amycus was the son of Poseidon and the Bithynian nymph Melia . [ 204 ] The philosopher Plato was held by his fellow ancient Greeks to have traced his descent to the sea-God Poseidon through his father Ariston and his mythic predecessors ...
Polyphemus (/ ˌ p ɒ l i ˈ f iː m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πολύφημος, romanized: Polyphēmos, Epic Greek: [polypʰɛːmos]; Latin: Polyphēmus [pɔlʏˈpʰeːmʊs]) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey.
He and his brothers were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Euaemon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god ...
The following contains spoilers from Tuesday’s episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Proceed accordingly. After switching up Medusa and Poseidon’s complicated lore, Tuesday’s episode ...
They cannot get out, for Poseidon has set bronze gates upon it, and a wall is extended on both sides. [72] However, besides Cronus, exactly which of the other Titans were supposed to have been imprisoned in Tartarus is unclear. [73] The only original Titan, mentioned by name, as being confined with Cronus in Tartarus, is Iapetus. [74]
That Poseidon and Erechtheus were two names at Athens for the same figure (see below) was demonstrated in the cult at the Erechtheum, where there was a single altar, a single priest and sacrifices were dedicated to Poseidon Erechtheus, Walter Burkert observed, [23] adding "An historian would say that a Homeric, pan-Hellenic name has been ...