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Poseidon (Neptune)
King of the Sea
By : Andrew Bateh, Angelo Spata, Matthew LaSorsa,
and John Luke DeStefano
Family
• Poseidon’s father, Cronus, was the Titan God. His
mother, Rhea, goddess of earth.
- Cronus was afraid that his children would overthrow
him, so he ate them. The mother hid Zeus so the father
wouldn’t eat him. Then Zeus over threw his father and
rescued all of his brothers and sister.
- Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon split the world into three
parts. Zeus was God of the Sky, Hades was God of
Underworld and Poseidon was the God of the Water.
- He also had three sisters, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera.
Poseidon History
• He was the God sea, storms, and earthquakes.
His symbols were dolphins and the three
pronged fish spear. His Roman name is
Neptune. He helped the king of Troy build the
walls around Troy. He was the father of many
hero’s. He fought against Athena for the city of
Athens, but lost. Even though he lost he was
still honored in Athens. His name means
husband of earth, or lord of earth.
Poseidon Conflicts
Poseidon favored the Greeks in the Trojan war.
He was also in the war against the Titans. He
had a conflict with Odysseus when the Greeks
were trying to go home to Greece, Poseidon
interfered with them for a period of eight
years.
Poseidon and the Greeks
Relationships
• Poseidon had a friendship with most of the
gods, especially Apollo
• His main wife was Amphitrite
• He had a relationship with Medusa when she
wasn’t ugly. They had a baby horse and his
name was Pegasus.
• He had many many babies with a lot
Facts About Poseidon
• He was a bearded old man usually pictured with
sea life and a trident.
• There is a temple named after him which still gets
a lot of visitors, near Cape Sounion and overlooks
the sea.
• He is a creative god and designed all the
creatures in the sea. (strength)
• Loves war but not more then Ares. ( weakness )
• He is moody and unpredictable. ( weakness )
More Facts
• In addition to creating the horse he also created the
zebra.
• He zebra was one of his early experiments of equine
engineering.
• He is similar, but not the same as the Roman God
Neptune.
• Poseidon is one of the top three Gods in Greek
mythology.
• Poseidon is widely worshiped by sea men and sailors.
• Responsible for all shipwrecks and bating accidents.
Inferiority of Poseidon
• Poseidon is considered equal to Zeus in the
Iliad.
• In some other accounts he is older then Zeus,
and one sibling Zeus did not have to save from
his father.
• In the Odysseus Poseidon didn’t have his
fearsome manner that was expected.
Fun Facts
• Poseidon also created cats, and humanity.
• Fiction and real ships, submarines, and weapons
named after him.
• He is also symbolized as a bull, fish, and the dolphin.
• Poseidon was first only the god of water but then the
when he became associated with the Greek god
Poseidon, his power was extended to the god of the
sea.
• There is also an underwater hotel in Dubai named after
him because eh was the god of the sea.
The Greek Myth of Poseidon
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Poseidon is a god of many names. He is most famous as the god of the sea. The son of Cronus and Rhea, Poseidon is one of
six siblings who eventually “divided the power of the world.” His brothers and sisters include: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades,
and Zeus. The division of the universe involved him and his brothers, Zeus and Hades. Poseidon became ruler of the sea,
Zeus ruled the sky, and Hades got the underworld. The other divinities attributed to Poseidon involve the god of earthquakes
and the god of horses. The symbols associated with Poseidon include: dolphins, tridents, and three-pronged fish spears.
Poseidon was relied upon by sailors for a safe voyage on the sea. Many men drowned horses in sacrifice of his honor. He
lived on the ocean floor in a palace made of coral and gems, and drove a chariot pulled by horses. However, Poseidon was a
very moody divinity, and his temperament could sometimes result in violence. When he was in a good mood, Poseidon
created new lands in the water and a calm sea. In contrast, when he was in a bad mood, Poseidon would strike the ground
with a trident and cause unruly springs and earthquakes, ship wrecks, and drownings. Poseidon was similar to his brother
Zeus in exerting his power on women and in objectifying masculinity. He had many love affairs and fathered numerous
children. Poseidon once married a Nereid, Amphitrite, and produced Triton who was half-human and half-fish. He also
impregnated the Gorgon Medusa to conceive Chrysaor and Pegasus, the flying horse. The rape of Aethra by Poseidon
resulted in the birth of Theseus; and he turned Caeneus into a man, at her request, after raping her. Another rape
involved Amymone when she tried to escape from a satyr and Poseidon saved her. Other offspring of Poseidon
include:Eumolpus, the Giant Sinis, Polyphemus, Orion, King Amycus, Proteus, Agenor and Belus from Europa, Pelias, and the
King of Egypt, Busiris.One of the most notorious love affairs of Poseidon involves his sister, Demeter. Poseidon pursued
Demeter and to avoid him she turned herself into a mare. In his lust for her, Poseidon transformed himself into a stallion and
captured her. Their procreation resulted in a horse, Arion. Poseidon is Greek for “Husband” (possibly of wheat), and
therefore it is thought that he and Demeter (goddess of wheat) are a good match because they reign as the god and goddess
of fertility. Another infamous story of Poseidon involves the competition between him and the goddess of war, Athena, for
the city of Athens. To win the people of the city over, Poseidon threw a spear at the ground and produced the Spring at the
Acropolis. However, Athena won as the result of giving the people of Athens the olive tree. In his anger over the decision,
Poseidon flooded the Attic Plain. Eventually, Athena and Poseidon worked together by combining their powers. Even though
Poseidon was the god of horses, Athena built the first chariot. Athena also built the first ship to sail on the sea over which
Poseidon ruled. Poseidon often used his powers of earthquakes, water, and horses to inflict fear and punishment on people
as revenge. Though he could be difficult and assert his powers over the gods and mortals, Poseidon could be cooperative
and it was he who helped the Greeks during the Trojan War. Poseidon is an essential character in the study of Greek
mythology.
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The Roman Myth of Poseidon
Neptune was the son of Saturn, and Rhea or Ops, and brother of Jupiter. When arrived at maturity, he assisted his brother Jupiter in his
expeditions, for which that god, on attaining to supreme power, assigned him the sea and the islands for his empire. Whatever attachment
Neptune might have had to his brother at one period, he was at another expelled heaven for entering into a conspiracy against him, in
conjunction with several other deities; whence he fled, with Apollo, to Laomedon, king of Troy, where Neptune having assisted in raising the
walls of the city, and being dismissed unrewarded, in revenge, sent a sea-monster to lay waste the country.On another occasion, this deity
had a contest with Vulcan and Minerva, in regard to their skill. The goddess, as a proof of her's, made a horse, Vulcan a man, and Neptune a
bull, whence that animal was used in the sacrifices to him, though it is probable that, as the victim was to be black, the design was to point
out the raging quality and fury of the sea, over which he presided. The Greeks make Neptune to have been the creator of the horse, which he
produced from out of the earth with a blow of his trident, when disputing with Minerva who should give the name to Cecropia, which was
afterwards called Athens, from the name in Greek of Minerva, who made an olive tree spring up suddenly, and thus obtained the victory.In
this fable, however, it is evident that the horse could signify nothing but a ship; for the two things in which that region excelled being ships
and olive-trees, it was thought politic by this means to bring the citizens over from too great a fondness for sea affairs, to the cultivation of
their country, by showing that Pallas was preferable to Neptune, or, in other words, husbandry to sailing, which, without some further
meaning, the production of a horse could never have done. It notwithstanding appears that Neptune had brought the management of the
horse, as likewise the art of building ships, to very great perfection; insomuch that Pamphus, who was the most ancient writer of hymns to the
gods, calls him the benefactor of mankind, in bestowing upon them horses and ships which had stems and decks that resembled towers.If
Neptune created the horse, he was likewise the inventor of chariot-races; hence Mithridates, king of Pontus, threw chariots, drawn by four
horses, into the sea, in honor of Neptune: and the Romans instituted horse-races in the circus during his festival, at which time all horses
ceased from working, and the mules were adorned with wreaths of flowers.Neptune, represented as a god of the sea, makes a considerable
figure: he is described with black or dark hair, his garment of an azure or sea-green color, seated in a large shell drawn by whales, or seahorses, with his trident in his hand, attended by the sea-gods PalAemon, Glaucus, and Phorcys; the sea-goddesses Thetis, Melita, and
Panopea, and a long train of Tritons and sea-nymphs.The inferior artists represent him sometimes with an angry and disturbed air; and we
may observe the same difference in this particular between the great and inferior poets as there is between the bad and the good artists.
Thus Ovid describes Neptune with a sullen look, whereas Virgil expressly tells us that he has a mild face, even where he is representing him in
a passion. Even at the time that he is provoked, and might be expected to have appeared disturbed, and in a passion, there is serenity and
majesty in his face.On some medals he treads on the beak of a ship, to show that he presided over the seas, or more particularly over the
Mediterranean sea, which was the great, and almost the only scene for navigation among the old Greeks and Romans. He is standing, as he
generally was represented; he most commonly, too, has his trident in his right hand: this was his peculiar sceptre, and seems to have been
used by him chiefly to rouse up the waters; for we find sometimes that he lays it aside when he is to appease them, but he resumes it when
there is occasion for violence. Virgil makes him shake Troy from its foundation with it; and in Ovid it is with the stroke of this that the waters
of the earth are let loose for the general deluge. The poets have generally delighted in describing this god as passing over the calm surface of
the waters, in his chariot drawn by sea-horses. The fine original description of this is in Homer, from whom Virgil and Statius have copied it.In
searching for the mythological sense of the fable, we must again have recourse to Egypt, that kingdom which, above all others, has furnished
the most ample harvest for the reaper of mysteries. The Egyptians, to denote navigation, and the return of the Phoenician fleet, which
annually visited their coast, used the figure of an Osiris borne on a winged horse, and holding a three-forked spear, or harpoon. To this image
they gave the name of Poseidon, or Neptune, which, as the Greeks and Romans afterwards adopted, sufficiently proves this deity had his birth
here. Thus the maritime Osiris of the Egyptians became a new deity with those who knew not the meaning of the symbol.
Creations
God Family Tree
Credits to the Myths
• The Greek Myth
http://terrellmims.wordpress.com/2011/01/10
/the-greek-myths-poseidon-the-god-of-thesea/
• The Roman Myth
www.roman-colosseum.info/roman-gods
myths-about-the-roman-god-neptune.htm