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The story of how Athens, one of the oldest cities in the world, attained its current name is a foundational tale of Greek ...
God of the sea, rivers, storms, earthquakes, bulls and horses, Poseidon occupies a large amount of ancient Greek mythology.
The city went to Athena, and she renamed it Athens after herself. Poseidon was furious at his loss, so in retaliation, he flooded the Thriasian Plains and submerged the entire land of Attica under ...
The Aegean Sea was a vital setting for Greek legends, so inevitably, the sea god Poseidon played a key role in many myths. As one story goes, a capital city rose to prominence in ancient Greece, but ...
Poseidon and Zeus were two of the Olympian ... The Parthenon in honor of Athena in Athens, is a masterpiece of architecture, science, and beauty. Homer and Hesiod wrote extensively about the ...
People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived high above Mount Olympus, in a palace in the clouds.
The odd manner in which Athena and Poseidon were worshipped and depicted in classical Greece is only explicable by their strange origins in the Bronze Age. In this lecture Dr. William J.