Who Is Poseidon?
God of the sea and earthquakes
Poseidon is the god of the sea in Greek mythology, and also the god of earthquakes who shakes the earth. A son of Cronus and Rhea and an older brother of Zeus, he is one of the Olympian gods. In Roman mythology he corresponds to Neptune.
In the Theogony, he is born as Rhea's fifth child and second son, and is swallowed at once by his father Cronus. Later, when Zeus's cunning and strength force Cronus to vomit up his children, Poseidon comes out into the world. In Episode 4, he is described as "the Dark-haired One" who lies with Medusa in a flowering meadow.
He is known for carrying a trident. The story that he, Zeus, and Hades drew lots to divide the world, with the sea falling to him, appears in Homer's Iliad.
Episodes featuring this character3
NEWEpisode 4
All the Monsters Were One FamilyMedusa and Echidna
Hesiod, a shepherd boy looking for true songs, is taken to Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea, who never tells a lie. Starting with Nereus's fifty sea-daughters, Hesiod follows one family line down to Medusa, Echidna, Cerberus, the Hydra and the Chimera. Even monsters had mothers, and brothers and sisters. And from the life of one mortal daughter, the winged horse Pegasus bursts into the sky.
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NEWEpisode 5
He Swallowed Five. Not This One.Cronus and Rhea
Cronus overthrew his father to become king, but one prophecy haunts him, so he swallows each of his five newborn children one after another. Grieving and carrying a sixth child, their mother Rhea asks Earth and Sky for help. Holding close the stone Earth gave her, she crosses the night sea, resolved that this time she will protect her child.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 6
The King of Gods Was Saved by a StoneThe Birth of Zeus and the Stone of Kronos
On a misty mountain, the Muses sing a hungry shepherd the tale of "the night a mother told her only lie." To save her youngest, Zeus, from Cronus, the boy-king who swallows his children, Rhea hands him a stone wrapped in swaddling cloth. Raised in a cave deep within the earth, Zeus overthrows his father with his grandmother Gaia's cunning and his own strength. He frees his five siblings from the light, reunites with his mother, and receives thunder from the uncles he unchains.
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