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Amphitrite, "the third one who encircles [the sea]", [18] was so entirely confined in her authority to the sea and the creatures in it that she was almost never associated with her husband, either for purposes of worship or in works of art, except when he was to be distinctly regarded as the god who controlled the sea.
God of courage, war, bloodshed, and violence. The son of Zeus and Hera , he was depicted as a beardless youth, either nude with a helmet and spear or sword, or as an armed warrior. Homer portrays him as moody and unreliable, and as being the most unpopular god on earth and Olympus ( Iliad 5.890–1).
A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed. They occur commonly in polytheistic religions. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been portrayed in their mythologies as commanding war in order to spread religion.
According to some, Circe turned the beautiful Scylla into a monster by poisoning the waters she used to bathe in because the sea-god Glaucus rejected her in favour of Scylla, according to others Amphitrite, the queen of the sea, was the one to curse her due to Scylla becoming mistress to Poseidon.
In God of War III, it is revealed that Hephaestus was the creator of Pandora and Pandora's Box, and he concealed the truth about his artificial "daughter" from Zeus, advising that the Box should be stored in an impregnable temple on the back of Cronos instead of in the Flame of Olympus. When Kratos eventually penetrated the temple and opened ...
In Greek mythology, Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, the god of fire, blacksmiths and metalworking. Aphrodite was frequently unfaithful to him and had many lovers; in the Odyssey, she is caught in the act of adultery with Ares, the god of war. In the First Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, she seduces the mortal shepherd Anchises.
In Greece the river god Acheloos is represented as a bull or a man-bull. [37] Burkert suggests that the Hellenic cult of Poseidon as a horse god may be connected to the introduction of the horse and war-chariot from Anatolia to Greece around 1600 BC. [2] In the Boeotian myth Poseidon is the water-god and Erinys is a goddess of the underworld. [40]
Leto also took part in the Trojan War, on the Trojans' side, along with her children Apollo and Artemis. When Apollo saved Aeneas from the battlefield, he brought him to one of his own temples in nearby Pergamus, where he was healed by Artemis and Leto. [ 70 ]