Poseidon

holy Onchestos with its famous grove of Poseidon;

and among them went King Agamemnon, with a head and face like Zeus the lord of thunder, a waist like Ares, and a chest like that of Poseidon.

See you not how the Achaeans have built a wall about their ships and driven a trench all round it, without offering hecatombs to the gods?

Bear in mind, however, that Poseidon is still furious with Odysseus for having blinded an eye of Polyphemus king of the Cyclopes.

Now Poseidon had gone off to the Ethiopians, who are at the world's end, and lie in two halves, the one looking West and the other East.

nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Poseidon, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.

For their wall was the work of Poseidon and Apollo.

The third sacred to Poseidon, slower than the second.

And again, when after more years the colt sacred to the Nymphs and to Poseidon rises up, having striven and been disturbed beyond its wont, it floods with much sweat this same one, as being its yoke-fellow;

Alone of all nations the Libyans have had among them the name of Poseidon from the beginning, and they have always honored this god.

Except the names of Poseidon and the Dioscuri, as I have already said, and Hera, and Hestia, and Themis, and the Graces, and the Nereids, the names of all the gods have always existed in Egypt.

Now the Thessalians say that Poseidon made the passage by which the Peneus flows.

Oh, Poseidon!

By Poseidon, do you see that many-coloured bird?

are they immolating a sheep to Poseidon, let them consecrate wheat in honor of the duck;

And Philochorus says that in Tenos Poseidon is honoured as a physician, and that Sicily lies upon Cronus, and that he is buried there.

And indeed the nine-cubit statues of Poseidon and Amphitrite, worshipped in Tenos, are the work of Telesius the Athenian, as Philochorus says.

Poseidon and Apollo served Laomedon as a worthless hireling, Apollo not even being able, it seems, to obtain his freedom from his former master;

Then will the father slay his child, my bitter foe, by curses, for the lord Poseidon granted this boon to Theseus;

O father Poseidon, once didst thou promise to fulfil three prayers of mine;

Ye gods and king Poseidon, thou hast proved my parentage by hearkening to my prayer!

for Poseidon fixed gates of bronze upon it, and a wall runs all round it on every side.

But Rhea was subject in love to Cronos and bore splendid children, Hestia, Demeter, and gold-shod Hera and strong Hades, pitiless in heart, who dwells under the earth, and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, and wise Zeus, father of gods and men, by whose thunder the wide earth is shaken.

Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows, and Poseidon the earth holder who shakes the earth, and revered Themis, and quick-glancing …

Honoring him, the god gave him a golden chariot, and horses with untiring wings.

Pitana, who, it is said, lay with Poseidon son of Cronus, and bore a child, violet-haired Evadne.

Master, ruler of the sea, husband of Amphitrite of the golden distaff, grant straight sailing free from troubles, and give new growth to the delightful flower of my songs.

He said that he was Eurypylus, the son of the holder of the earth, the immortal earth-shaker Poseidon.

Escorted by the breezes of the South wind, they reached the mouth of the Inhospitable Sea, and there they set up a holy precinct to Poseidon, god of the sea;

“Son of Poseidon, Cleaver of the Rock, the minds of mortals are all too swift to praise crafty gain rather than justice, although they are moving towards a harsh reckoning.

august Poseidon holds it, and in it lives the fire-bearing god, the Titan Prometheus.

For you, son of Cronus, lord Poseidon, have set her on the throne of this pride, by establishing first in our roads the bit that cures the rage of horses.

If you chance to be in the glade sacrificing an ox to the sea-god Poseidon, then come!

But Poseidon showed that you are entirely in the wrong, for he drove your father out of her chamber into the open by an earthquake.

It was on this night also that the temple of Poseidon was seen burning;

and all the Lacedaemonians, those in the royal tent taking the lead, struck up the paean to Poseidon;

But some say she came from the Malians, being a daughter of Lamia, who was the daughter of Poseidon.

First, then, in ancient times, as we are told by tradition, in this court alone the gods condescended both to render and to demand satisfaction for homicide, and to sit in judgement upon contending litigants,—Poseidon, according to the legend, deigning to demand justice from Ares on behalf of his son Halirrothius, and the twelve gods to adjudicate between the Eumenides and Orestes.

The juror shall swear by Zeus, Poseidon, and Demeter, and shall invoke destruction upon himself and his household if he in any way transgress this oath, and shall pray that his prosperity may depend upon his loyal observance thereof.

Did they not know I was a god and sprung from gods?

Plague take the headlands by the sea, on which my father seats himself!

O Cyclops, by thy sire Poseidon, by mighty Triton and Nereus, by Calypso and the daughters of Nereus, by the sacred billows and all the race of fishes!

O Poseidon of the sea, who lives in the deep, and you holy daughters of Nereus, bring me and my wife safe and sound from here to Nauplia’s shore!

The sea-god smote and slew him with his trident.

Wert thou, wert Poseidon, and Zeus, the lord of heaven, to make atonement to mankind for every act of lawless love, ye would empty your temples in paying the fines for your misdeeds.

but Poseidon, for my sake, now lets him sail over the back of the waveless sea.

Revered Poseidon, ruler of the sea, watches over Troy and is hostile to the race of Pelops;

This is the man who says he will give the Theban girls as captives of his spear to the women of Mycenae, to Lerna’s trident, and the waters of Amymone, dear to Poseidon, when he has them enslaved.

Poseidon, rider of the wild sea-drift,

Tamed them, men say, and gave them for his gift

Those coursers of the sea-god’s giving,

Athena:

Athena:

Athena:

“Good friend, truly the father of men and gods greatly honors your head and the bull-like Earth-Shaker also, who keeps Thebe's veil of walls and guards the city,—so great and strong is this fellow they bring into your hands that you may win great glory.

Then you will not wreck your ship, nor will the sea destroy the sailors, unless Poseidon the Earth-Shaker be set upon it, or Zeus, the king of the deathless gods, wish to slay them;