(Ποσειδῶν, Poseidōn)[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures
God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, and earthquakes. He is a son of Cronus and Rhea, and the brother of Zeus and Hades. He rules one of the three realms of the universe, as king of the sea and the waters. In art he is depicted as a mature man of sturdy build, often with a luxuriant beard, and holding a trident. His sacred animals include the horse and the dolphin. His wedding with Amphitrite is often presented as a triumphal procession. In some stories he rapes Medusa, leading to her transformation into a hideous Gorgon and also to the birth of their two children, Pegasus and Chrysaor. His Roman counterpart is Neptune.
Poseidon and the heroes
Poseidon,[3] as god of the sea, was an important Olympian power; he was the chief patron of Corinth, many cities of Magna Graecia, and also of Plato‘s legendary Atlantis. He controls the oceans and the seas,[4] and he also created horses. As such, he was intimately connected with the pre-historic office of king – whose chief emblem of power and primary sacrificial animal was the horse. Thus, on the Mycenean Linear B tablets found at Pylos, the name Poseidon[5] occurs frequently in connection with the wanax (“king”), whose power and wealth were increasingly maritime rather than equestrian in nature. Surprisingly, Poseidon’s name is found with greater frequency than that of Zeus, and is commonly linked (often in a secondary role) with Demeter. Poseidon[6] is brothers with Zeus along with Hades and his father was Cronus, the leader of the Titans.
When the office of wanax disappeared during the Greek Dark Ages, the link between Poseidon and the kingship was largely, although not entirely, forgotten. In classical Athens, Poseidon was remembered as both the opponent and doublet of Erechtheus, the first king of Athens. Erechtheus was given a hero-cult at his tomb under the title Poseidon Erechtheus.
In another possible echo of this archaic association, the chief ritual of Atlantis, according to Plato‘s Critias, was a nocturnal horse-sacrifice offered to Poseidon[7] by the kings of the imagined island power.
In keeping with the mythic equation between horsemanship and seamanship, the equestrian heroes Castor and Pollux were invoked by sailors against shipwreck. Ancient Greeks interpreted the phenomenon now called St. Elmo’s Fire as the visible presence of the two brothers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_sea_gods#Poseidon_and_the_heroes
List of Poseidon’s consorts and children[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseidon
Female lovers and offspring
- Amphitrite
- Triton
- Benthesikyme
- Rhode (possibly)
- Aphrodite
- Rhode (possibly)
- Herophile the Sibyl (possibly)
- Demeter
- Gaea
- Hestia (wooed her unsuccessfully)
- Aba, nymph
- Ergiscus[46]
- Agamede
- Aethra
- Alistra[47]
- Alcyone
- Alope
- Hippothoon
- Amphimedusa, Danaid
- Amymone
- Arene
- Idas (possibly)
- Arne / Melanippe
- Arethusa
- Ascre
- Oeoclus[48]
- Astydameia, daughter of Phorbas
- Caucon
- Astypalaea
- Beroe (daughter of Aphrodite)
- Boudeia / Bouzyge
- Caenis
- Calchinia
- Peratus
- Canace
- Celaeno (Pleiad or daughter of Ergeus)
- Celaeno, Danaid
- Celaenus
- Cerebia[49]
- Ceroessa
- Cleodora
- Parnassus
- Chione
- Chrysogeneia
- Chryses, father of Minyas
- Corcyra, nymph
- Phaeax
- Coronis
- Diopatra, nymph of Mount Othrys
- Euryale, daughter of Minos
- Orion (possibly)
- Eurycyda
- Eurynome (Eurymede), daughter of Nisos
- Euryte / Bathycleia
- Halia
- Rhode (possibly)
- six sons
- Harpale / Scamandrodice / Calyce
- Helle
- Almops
- Edonus
- Paion
- Hermippe
- Minyas (possibly)
- Hippothoe
- Iphimedeia
- The Aloadae
- Laodice[50]
- Larissa
- Achaeus
- Pelasgus
- Pythius
- Leis, daughter of Orus
- Altephus[51]
- Libya
- Lysianassa / Anippe
- Mecionice / Europa, daughter of Tityos
- Euphemus, Argonaut
- Medusa
- Melantheia, daughter of Alpheus
- Melantho (daughter of Deucalion)
- Melia
- Amycus
- Mygdon
- Melissa, daughter of Epidamnus
- Dyrrhachius[52]
- Mestra
- Mideia
- Aspledon
- Molione
- The Molionides
- Mytilene
- Myton[53]
- Oenope
- Megareus of Onchestus (possibly)
- Olbia, nymph
- Ossa
- Sithon (possibly)
- Peirene
- Cenchrias
- Leches
- Periboea
- Pero, nymph / Kelousa, nymph
- Asopus (possibly)
- Pitane, nymph / Lena
- Phoenice
- Torone[55]
- Pronoe, daughter of Asopus
- Rhode[56]
- Ialysus
- Cameirus
- Lindus
- Rhodope, daughter of Strymon
- Athos[57]
- Salamis, daughter of Asopus
- Satyria, nymph of Taras
- Syme
- Themisto
- Leucon (possibly)
- Theophane
- The Ram of the Golden Fleece
- Thyia
- Tyro
- Thoosa
- Daughter of Amphictyon, unnamed
- Nymph of Chios, unnamed
- Nymph of Chios, unnamed (another one)
- Melas
- Agelus
- Malina
- unknown consorts
- Amphimarus[59]
- Amyrus, eponym of a river in Thessaly[60]
- Aon, eponym of Aonia[61]
- Astraeus and Alcippe of Mysia[62]
- Calaurus[63]
- Corynetes (possibly)
- Cymopoleia
- Cromus (eponym of Crommyon)[64]
- Geren, eponym of a town or village Geren on Lesbos[65]
- Dicaeus, eponym of Dicaea, a city in Thrace[66]
- Euseirus (father of Cerambus)
- Ialebion (Alebion) and Dercynus (Bergion) of Liguria[67]
- Laestrygon, eponym of the Laestrygonians
- Lamus, king of the Laestrygonians
- Lotis (possibly)
- Messapus
- Onchestus[68]
- Ourea[69]
- Palaestinus[70]
- Phorbas of Acarnania
- Poltys
- Procrustes
- Proteus
- Sarpedon of Ainos
- Sciron
- Syleus
- Taenarus (possibly)
In Plato‘s myth of Atlantis, Poseidon consorted with Cleito, daughter of the autochthons Evenor and Leucippe, and had by her ten sons: Ampheres, Atlas, Autochthon, Azaes, Diaprepes, Elasippus, Euaemon, Eumelus (Gadeirus), Mestor, Mneseus.[71]
Male lovers
Personal Information
Name | Poseidon (Twelve Olympians) Aquatic Deity |
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Parents | |
Wife | Libya (daughter of Epaphus – King of Egypt) |
Siblings
Children
Name | Birth | Death | |
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Agenor (Phoenician king of Tyre)asdasds | |||
Belus (King of Egypt)asdasds |
Children-in-Law
Name | Birth | Death | |
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Telephassa (daughter of Nilus)asdasds | |||
Achiroë aka. Anchirrhoë (naiad)asdasds |
Grand-Children
Name | Birth | Death | |
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Europa (daughter of Agenor)asdasds | |||
Cilix (son of Agenor)asdasds | |||
Cadmus (King of Thebes)asdasds | |||
Aegyptus (son of Belus)asdasds | |||
Danaus (mythical King of Egypt)asdasds |
Great-Grand-Children
Great-Great-Grand-Children
Name | Birth | Death | |
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Abas (son of Lynceus)asdasds | |||
Amphiaraus (son of Hypermnestra) Chthonic Deity oracular (son of Hypermnestra)asdasds | |||
Dionysus (Twelve Olympians)asdasds |
References