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 ...

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 ...

Poseidon and Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom and warfare, bickered about everything, so of course, this new shining city was a prize worth fighting for. The citizens asked for a gift from each ...

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.

But for those with a deeper knowledge of Greek mythology ... posit that the encounter was nonconsensual, and that Poseidon raped Medusa in Athena’s temple. Athena decides to punish Medusa ...