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.

Poseidon the God of the Sea and Athena, Zeus’s favourite daughter and the war goddess, had a quarrel. Both wished to be the patron god of Akte, a coastal city in Greece and neither was willing ...

Recounted in a regrettably short passage in Homer’s Iliad, early in Zeus’s reign, Poseidon conspired with Hera and Athena to overthrow him. They chained him up and would have succeeded in ...

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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.