CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTESHYMNS TO POSEIDONI) THE HOMERIC HYMNSHomeric Hymn 22 to Poseidon (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th or 6th B.C.) : "I begin to sing about Poseidon, the great god, mover of the earth and fruitless sea, god of the deep who is also lord of Helikon (...
Poseidon was the ancient Greek Olympian god of the sea, sources of fresh water, horses and earthquakes. He was widely worshipped with numerous temples and shrines throughout ancient Greece. The foremost of these were his sanctuary near Corinth, site of t
I am trying to communicate that there is a space, a gap, between the ultimate reality of the universe (which we may call God or the unknown) and between our ability to articulate (Christian Word) the rules (Greek Logos) of that reality. This is the space where intuition operates, beyond...
The Olympic god Poseidon is one of the many foes of Odysseus. His hatred for the epic hero began after the famous Greek blinded Poseidon’s son, Polyphemus. His son’s humiliation prompted the god of the sea to use his powers to prevent the hero from returning home to Ithaca. Detailed ...
: "Great god of the sea [Poseidon], husband of Amphitrite, goddess of the gold spindle."Bacchylides, Fragment 17 (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric IV) (C5th B.C.) : "But sea-dwelling dolphins were swiftly carrying great Theseus to the house of his father [Poseidon], god of horses...
Poseidon was the Olympian god of the sea, earthquakes, floods, drought and horses. This page describes the mortal lovers of the god. Most of these, however, only appear in the ancient genealogies with no accompanying story. The most famous of liaisons we
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTESTHE SEA-GOD TRITONHeracles wrestling Triton, Athenian black-figure amphora C6th B.C., British Museum Hesiod, Theogony 930 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : "And of Amphitrite and the loud-roaring Earth-Shaker [Poseidon] was born great...