Athena called the city Athens after herself, but Poseidon, angry at the verdict flooded Attica. But Athena, coming after him, planted an olive tree and claimed the land and since they fought for the possession of the country, Zeus parted them and appointed the OLYMPIANS as arbiters, who adjudged the city to Athena, because King Cecrops 1 witnessed that she had been the first to plant the olive tree.
These were the evidences in support of Poseidon's claim to the land. Poseidon, they say, was the first who came to Attica and with a blow of his trident on the Acropolis, he produced a sea or, as some say, just a well of sea-water that could be seen in the Erechtheum on the Acropolis not far from the outline of the trident on the rock. 4611: Joseph-Marie Vien 1716-1809: Triomphe d'Amphitrite. This dispute took place during the reign of King Althepus, himself son of Poseidon and Leis, the daughter of Orus 1, predecessor of Althepus.Īmphitrite. But Zeus commanded them to hold this city in common, and so they did. Yet another disagreement concerning the patronage of lands and cities arised between Poseidon and Athena in relation to Troezen. Lerna is however, excepted for it was here that Amymone 1 (one of the DANAIDS) yielded to Poseidon on condition that she might have water, and the god, being in love with her, revealed to her the springs at Lerna. But since little and much must compensate each other, Poseidon inundated many districts in Argolis because of the decisions of the RIVER GODS. Disappointed with this judgement, the god made their waters disappear, and that is why they never provide any water except after rain, their streams being dry during the summer. A tribunal of three RIVER GODS: Inachus, Cephisus, and Asterion 2, decided on this occasion that Argolis would belong to Hera and not to Poseidon. He then assigned to Poseidon the Isthmus of Corinth including the adjacent lands, and gave to Helius the height above the city (Acrocorinthus).Ī similar dispute, though this time for the patronage of Argos, involved Poseidon and Hera. However, he was saved by Briareus (one of the HECATONCHEIRES), whom Achilles' mother Thetis had called to Zeus' rescue and by just squatting down close to him and through the mere display of his force, Briareus frightened Poseidon and the goddesses away.Īccording to the Corinthians, this same Briareus acted as adjudicator arbitrating between Helius and Poseidon, who had a dispute concerning the lands about Corinth. Poseidon took once part in a minor conspiracy in heaven for he, along with Hera and Athena, had agreed to put Zeus in bonds. Then Poseidon constructed the brazen fence that runs round Tartarus and its gates of bronze, behind which the TITANS were confined (for Tartarus see also Underworld). Having won victory, they cast lots for the sovereignty, and to Zeus was allotted the dominion of the sky, to Poseidon the dominion of the sea, and to Hades the dominion of the Underworld.
And with the aid of his brothers and sisters Zeus waged war against Cronos and the TITANS, whom he defeated and cast into Tartarus, a place as far beneath the earth as heaven is above earth. When Zeus had grown up, he asked Metis 1 to help him against his father Cronos, who was a stern tyrant so she gave Cronos a drug, which forced him to disgorge first the stone with which Rhea 1 had deluded him, and then the children whom he had swallowed, among which Poseidon.
But others say that Poseidon was swallowed by his father, as also were his siblings Hestia, Hera, Hades and Demeter for they assert that only Zeus escaped that fate. Rhea 1 committed the child Poseidon to Caphira (one of the OCEANIDS) and to the TELCHINES (see CORYBANTES), so that they would nurture him, much in the way as she later committed Zeus to the CURETES for his protection. The Arcadians say that when Poseidon was born his mother declared to her husband Cronos, who used to swallow his offspring at birth, that she had given birth to a horse, and so she presented him a foal to swallow instead of the child, just as later she offered him a wrapped stone in place of Zeus. Poseidon was the first to concern himself with seafaring, and the first to tame horses. Poseidon, the earth-shaker, was alotted the dominion of the sea (just as Zeus got the sky, and Hades the Underworld) and he received the trident from the CYCLOPES (just as Zeus got the thunderbolt, and Hades a helmet).
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