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Poseidon is the god of the sea. He is also known as Neptune (Roman) and the Earth-shaker. His attributes in iconography include the trident and the fish.

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Texts

Birth

• Pausanias 8.8.2

• Apollodorus 1.1.6

• Hesiod: Theogony 453

Domain

• Apollodorus 1.2.2

• Homeric Hymn 22.1

• Homer: Iliad 15.184

Sexual Encounters and Offspring

• Aethra -> Theseus?:Apollodorus 3.15.7

• Amphitrite (consort) -> Triton and Rhode: Apollodorus 1.5.1, Hesiod: Theogony 930

• Amymone -> Nauplius: Apollodorus 2.1.5

• Caeneus -> Apollodorus 2.151

• Canace -> Hopleus, Nireus, Epopeus, Aloeus, and Triops: Apollodorus 1.7.5

• Chione -> Eumolpus: Apollodorus 3.15.5

• Demeter -> Arion and/or the Mistress: Pausanias 8.25.5, Pausanias 8.25.8, Pausanias 8.42.2, Apollodorus 3.7.1, Pausanias 8.37.9

• Euryale -> Orion: Apollodorus 1.4.4

• Iphimedia -> Otus and Ephialtes: Apollodorus 1.7.5

• Lake Tritonis -> Athene: Pausanias 1.14.6, Herodotus: Histories 4.180.4

• Medusa -> Pegasus: Apollodorus 2.4.1

• Thoosa -> Polyphemus: Apollodorus e.7.4, Homer: Odyssey 1.44

• Tyro -> Pelias and Neleus: Apollodorus 1.9.9, Homer: Odyssey 11.250

Other Encounters

• Achaeans: Homer: Iliad 13.1, Homer: Iliad 13.32, Homer: Iliad 13.59

• Aeneas: Homer: Iliad 20.309

• Aias (Ajax): Apollodorus 2.249, Homer: Odyssey 4.500

• Apollo: Pausanias 10.5.6, Pausanias 2.33.1

• Ares: Apollodorus 3.14.3, Demosthenes: Against Aristocrates 66

• Athene: Apollodorus 3.14.2, Herodotus Histories 8.55

• Centaurs: Apollodorus 2.5.5

• Ethiopians: Apollodorus 2.4.4

• Hestia: Homeric Hymn 5.1

• Hippolytus: Apollodorus 2.147

• Idomeneus: Homer: Iliad 13.205, Homer: Iliad 13.231

• Laomedon: Apollodorus 2.5.10, Homer: Iliad 7.445, Homer: Iliad 21.435

• Minos and Pasiphae: Apollodorus 3.1.4, Apollodorus 2.5.8

• Odysseus (Ulysses): Apollodorus 2.297, Homer: Odyssey 1.44

• Pelops: Apollodorus 2.157

• Polybotes: Apollodorus 1.6.2

• Shakes the earth: Homer: Iliad 20.54

• Theseus: Plutarch: Theseus 6.1, Plato: Republic 391c

• Thetis: Apollodorus 3.16.6, Pindar: Isthmean 8.21, Pindar: Isthmean 8.31

• Titans: Hesiod: Theogony 730

• The Wall: Homer: Iliad 12.15

• Zeus: Homer: Iliad 15.155, Homer: Iliad 15.184

Relationship to Zeus

Also see accounts of birth above.

• Homer: Iliad 8.200

• Homer: Iliad 15.155

• Homer: Iliad 15.184

Also see Poseidon images.

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