Poseidon (/pəˈsaɪdÉ™n,pÉ'-,poÊŠ-/; Greek: Ποσειδῶν,
pronounced [poseË dÉ"Ì Ë n]) 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.. He had also the cult title "earth
shaker". In the myths of isolated Arcadia he is related with Demeter
and Persephone and he was venerated as a horse, however it seems that
he was originally a god of the waters. He is often regarded as the
tamer or father of horses, and with a strike of his trident, he
created springs which are related with the word horse. His Roman
equivalent is Neptune.Poseidon was protector of seafarers, and of many
Hellenic cities and colonies. 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.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 legendary island of Atlantis was Poseidon's domain. Poseidon Top Movies & Young Movies