![]() ![]() The stand-alone expansion, Poseidon: Master of Atlantis, puts the player in. Apollo sent a pestilence to Troy while Poseidon released a sea monster which, carried up by a flood. Zeus sent Poseidon and Apollo to serve Laomedon as punishment for a conspiracy. Parnassus after the Great Flood, because of this he was sometimes called Pythian. Zeus: Master of Olympus (2000) is the Ancient Greece installment of the. Laomedon owned magical horses with divine parentage, a gift from Zeus to his grandfather Tros in compensation for kidnapping Tross son Ganymede. In Plato's Timaeus and Critias, the legendary island of Atlantis was Poseidon's domain.Īthena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens after a competition with Poseidon, and he remained on the Acropolis in the form of his surrogate, Erechtheus. Apollo and his twin sister Artemis were the children of Zeus and Leto. ![]() Poseidon is also the subject of a Homeric hymn. In Homer's Iliad, Poseidon supports the Greeks against the Trojans during the Trojan War and in the Odyssey, during the sea-voyage from Troy back home to Ithaca, the Greek hero Odysseus provokes Poseidon's fury by blinding his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, resulting in Poseidon punishing him with storms, the complete loss of his ship and companions, and a ten-year delay. Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea following the defeat of his father Cronus, when the world was divided by lot among his three sons Zeus was given the sky, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the sea, with the Earth and Mount Olympus belonging to all three. Poseidon is also the patron of seafaring. He held sway over the seas and waters, and is particularly known for causing tempests. ![]() Other sources (like the Metamorphoses) imply that Deucalion and his wife simply got lucky, managed to find a boat, and were allowed to live because they humbly gave thanks to the gods for their survival.Poseidon was protector of seafarers, and of many Hellenic cities and colonies. Poseidon () is the Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, droughts, floods, water, aquatic creatures, marine weather and horses. Some sources say that, because of Deucalion’s piety and loyalty to the gods, he was warned (either by his father or by one of the Olympian gods) about the flood, and told to build a sturdy ark. The entire ordeal lasted about nine days, and by the time the waters receded, all of mankind had drowned.Īll, that is, except one married couple: Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha. He and Poseidon worked together to create a sudden and massively destructive flood, with Zeus controlling the storm clouds and Poseidon commanding the rivers and oceans to overflow. Seeking the help of his brother, Poseidon, Zeus asked the God of the Sea to send a flood over the entirety of the earth. Instead, he chose a punishment that would wipe out the humans, without causing much permanent damage to the earth itself: a flood. ![]() Enraged by Lycaon’s degenerate actions, Zeus made the decision to destroy all of mankind.Īfter all, why bother throwing out the bad apples when you can just as easily burn the whole orchard?!Īccording to Ovid, Zeus almost destroyed humankind by barraging the Earth with lightning bolts, but stopped when he realized that the resulting fire would probably destroy all of creation. Poseidon wasnt happy about the decision, so he caused a terrible flood. Zeus (never a fan of humankind to begin with) was appalled by their behavior, and by the time Lycaon, the king of Arcadia (in an effort to test whether Zeus was really omniscient) killed his own young son and served the boy’s cooked flesh to the god at a banquet, Zeus’ patience had already worn thin. Zeus was the god of the sky and ruler of the gods. Poseidon was very angry about this, and he even tried to flood the area. Laomedon was variously identified with different parents and siblings, as well as numerous children, including Priam and Tithonus. So, thanks to the valiant Prometheus, man was made out of clay and, with the gift of fire, was able to grow and flourish and form civilization-but, so the legend goes, mankind also began to quickly fall into a state of utter depravity. In Greek mythology, he is the brother of Zeus and Hades, the gods of the sky and. In Greek mythology, Laomedon ( / lemdn / Ancient Greek: means 'ruler of the people') was a Trojan king, son of Ilus and thus nephew of Ganymede and Assaracus. In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea, floods, droughts, earthquakes and horses. At night, his liver would grow back, and in the morning the whole grisly process would start again. Some sources say that Zeus had already taken fire away from mankind, and that Prometheus stole it back, or that Zeus had never wanted humans to have fire in the first place-either way, Prometheus defied him, and was horrifically punished: he was chained to a rock, where he would be defenseless against the eagle that slowly picked out and ate his liver over the course of the day. ![]()
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