Poseidon

God of the sea, storms, earthquakes, horses

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Parents Cronus and Rhea

Siblings Hades, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Zeus, Chiron

Consort Amphitrite, Aphrodite, Demeter, various others

Children

Theseus

Triton

Polyphemus

Orion

Belus

Agenor

Neleus

Atlas (the first king of Atlantis)

Pegasus

Chrysaor

Roman equivalent: Neptune

Poseidon (/pəˈsaɪdən, pɒ-, poʊ-/ Greek: Ποσειδῶν, pronounced [poseːdɔ́ːn]) was one of the Twelve
Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. In pre-
Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes. His Roman
equivalent is Neptune.

Poseidon was protector of seafarers, and of many Hellenic cities and colonies. 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. Poseidon is also the subject of a Homeric hymn. In
Plato's Timaeus and Critias, the island