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Some of the oldest Greek myths appear in Boeotia. In ancient cults Poseidon was worshipped as a horse. The horse Arion was a sire of Poseidon-horse with Erinys and the winged horse Pegasus a sire of Poseidon foaled by Medousa. [10] At Onchestos he had an old famous festival which included horseracing. [10]
The ancient Greeks had numerous water deities. The philosopher Plato once remarked [1] that the Greek people were like frogs sitting around a pond—their many cities hugging close to the Mediterranean coastline from the Hellenic homeland to Asia Minor, Libya, Sicily, and southern Italy. Thus, they venerated a rich variety of water divinities.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains ...
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
The ruins matched the location of an important — but long-lost — sanctuary described in an ancient Greek text, Geographica. Poseidon, god of the sea , was a key figure in Greek mythology.
Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.
When he lost, Poseidon used the trident to dry out the land so they had no water. The well was later to be called the Erechtheis. [3] [4] [5] There is further myth that Poseidon (Neptune) produced a horse by striking the earth with the trident, in order to bolster his claim, [6] but there is no attestation for this among Greek writers. [7]
She has been compared to the nymph, the female character of ancient Greek mythology. [48] [49] She is said to inhabit water sources (rivers and wells), [50] similar to their ancient mythical counterpart, the Nereids (water nymphs). [51] [52] However, in modern speech, the term also encompasses fairy maidens from mountains and woodlands. [53]