![]() ![]() ![]() Last but not least, Poseidon was asked to put aside his anger and spare Odysseus' life for blinding his son Polyphemus: Impeached by Poseidon, Ares was tried in the Areopagus before the twelve gods, and was acquitted. In attempting to violate Alcippe, Halirrhothius, son of Poseidon and a nymph Euryte, was detected and killed by Ares. Source: Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.22.4įurthermore, the Earth Shaker didn't have much luck in a courtroom either:Ĭecrops married Agraulus, daughter of Actaeus, and had a son Erysichthon, who departed this life childless and Cecrops had daughters, Agraulus, Herse, and Pandrosus. Now it was Hera who induced Poseidon to send the sea back, but the Argives made a sanctuary to Poseidon Prosclystius at the spot where the tide ebbed. Here is a sanctuary of Poseidon, surnamed Prosclystius (Flooder), for they say that Poseidon inundated the greater part of the country because Inachus and his assessors decided that the land belonged to Hera and not to him. Athena, therefore, called the city Athens after herself, and Poseidon in hot anger flooded the Thriasian plain and laid Attica under the sea.Īnd Athens wasn't even the only city the God of the Sea failed to get a hold of, his claim for Argos was denied by Hera: And in accordance with their verdict the country was adjudged to Athena, because Cecrops bore witness that she had been the first to plant the olive. But when the two strove for possession of the country, Zeus parted them and appointed arbiters, not, as some have affirmed, Cecrops and Cranaus, nor yet Erysichthon, but the twelve gods. After him came Athena, and, having called on Cecrops to witness her act of taking possession, she planted an olive tree, which is still shown in the Pandrosium. So Poseidon was the first that came to Attica, and with a blow of his trident on the middle of the acropolis, he produced a sea which they now call Erechtheis. In his time, they say, the gods resolved to take possession of cities in which each of them should receive his own peculiar worship. Then he lost the contest for Athens to Athena:Ĭecrops, a son of the soil, with a body compounded of man and serpent, was the first king of Attica, and the country which was formerly called Acte he named Cecropia after himself. Armed with these weapons the gods overcame the Titans, shut them up in Tartarus, and appointed the Hundred-handers their guards but they themselves cast lots for the sovereignty, and to Zeus was allotted the dominion of the sky, to Poseidon the dominion of the sea, and to Pluto the dominion in Hades. And the Cyclopes then gave Zeus thunder and lightning and a thunderbolt, and on Pluto they bestowed a helmet and on Poseidon a trident. ![]() ![]() So he slew their jailoress Campe, and loosed their bonds. They fought for ten years, and Earth prophesied victory to Zeus if he should have as allies those who had been hurled down to Tartarus. First, he lost dominion over the heavens to Zeus:īut when Zeus was full-grown, he took Metis, daughter of Ocean, to help him, and she gave Cronus a drug to swallow, which forced him to disgorge first the stone and then the children whom he had swallowed, and with their aid Zeus waged the war against Cronus and the Titans. It seems that every time Poseidon was in contest with another Olympian, he came up short. ![]()
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