5/6/2023 0 Comments Poseidon vs neptune![]() ![]() With a stroke of his trident Poseidon caused a brackish spring to well up on the Acropolis of Athens, a rock 400 feet high, and previously altogether without water. To settle the dispute, it was agreed by the gods that whichever of the two should perform the greatest wonder, and at the same time confer the most useful gift on the land, should be entitled to rule over it. It may have been to illustrate a tendency of the sea to encroach in many places on the coast as well as to show the importance attached to a good supply of water, that the myth originated which tells us of the dispute between Poseidon and Athenē for the sovereignty of the soil of Attica. Which four great sea-horses did draw, in team-ways tied.” That his swift chariot might have passage wide, They trembling stood, and made a long, broad dike He sternly shook and therewith fierce did strike His horses speed lightly, and never a drop touches the brazen axle.” 69ĭroppèpped with brackish dew - his three-forked pike The beasts of the sea sport round him, leaving their lurking-places, for they know him to be their lord. “He yokes to the chariot,” sings Homer in the Iliad, “his swift steeds, with feet of brass and manes of gold, and himself, clad in gold, drives over the waves. A suitable symbol of his power, therefore, was the horse, admirably adapted as it is both for labor and battle, whilst in swift springing movement compares finely with the advance of a foaming wave of the sea. To Poseidon fell the control of the element of water, and he in like manner was conceived a a god in whose character and actions were reflected the phenomena of that element, whether as the broad navigable sea, or as the cloud which gives fertility to the earth, growth to the grain and vine, or as the fountain which refreshes man, cattle, and horses. To Zeus fell, besides a general supremacy, the control of the heavens and we have seen how he and his consort Hera, representing the phenomena of that region, were conceived as divine persons possessed of a character and performingĪctions such a were suggested by those phenomena. It has already been told how, when all the resources had failed which the Titans could bring to bear for the restoration of Cronus to the throne, the government of the world was divided by lot among his three sons, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades. Murray Revised Edition, Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 1895 pp. From Manual of Mythology, by Alexander S. ![]()
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