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Poseidon was the father of many heroes. He is thought to have fathered the famed Theseus. Poseidon also had an affair with Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, his son and King of Eleusis, begetting the Attic hero Hippothoon. Cercyon had his daughter buried alive but Poseidon turned her into the spring, Alope, near Eleusis. [203]
A statue of Neptune in the city of Bristol.. Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea and the brother of Zeus, Hades, Hera, Hestia and Demeter.Beckoned by the curse of Polyphemus, his one-eyed giant son, he attempts to make Odysseus' journey home much harder than it actually needs to be.
The Erythraeans regularly sacrificed to Poseidon Asphaleius to protect the city's walls, as did the Colophonians when in the 4th century BCE they built new fortifications for their town. [8] We also have evidence of several ancient inscriptions that urge townspeople to sacrifice to Poseidon Asphaleius in the aftermath of an earthquake , to ...
When Poseidon carried Theophane off, he transformed her into a ewe, himself a ram, and the people of Crumissa (the island he transferred Theophane to) into cattle. [26] Curetes: Lions: Cronus: The Cretan Curetes had been tasking by the goddess Rhea to guard her infant son Zeus while he was kept hidden from his father Cronus who intended to eat him.
'crow' [1] pronounced [korɔ̌ːnɛː]) is a young woman who attracted the attention of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and was saved by Athena, the goddess of wisdom. She was a princess and the daughter of Coronaeus. Her brief tale is recounted in the narrative poem Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid. Several other myths surround the crow ...
Caeneus was originally a woman named Caenis who was transformed into a man by the sea-god Poseidon. [8] Although possibly as old as the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (c. first half of the sixth century BC), [9] the oldest secure mention of this transformation comes from the mythographer Acusilaus (sixth to fifth century BC). [10]
Athenians thought of themselves as Erechtheidai, the "sons of Erechtheus". [2] In Homer 's Iliad (2. 547–48) Erechtheus is the son of "grain-giving Earth", reared by Athena . [ 3 ] The earth-born son was sired by Hephaestus , whose semen Athena wiped from her thigh with a fillet of wool cast to earth, by which Gaia was made pregnant.
However, after Poseidon's Sea General Siren Sorento arrived and told the truth, he switched sides and sacrificed himself to kill Siren Sorento (although Sorento was thought to have died, he actually survived and returns to Poseidon). His armor resembles the dragon Fafner.