Poseidons Loves and Their Children

Poseidon's Loves and Their Children The Greek lord of the ocean, Poseidon sibling of the divine beings Zeus and Hades, and of the goddesses Hera, Demeter, and Hestia was related with the ocean as well as with ponies. Its hard to in any event, for students of history to follow the horde darlings and offspring of the Greek divine beings. A few appraisals put the check at well over a hundred, with the sweethearts being for the most part yet not solely female. Now and again, antiquated specialists vary, so the specific ancestry and connections stay open to discuss. By the by, a few of the divine beings different consorts and posterity remain fancifully critical in their own right. Amphitrite, His Consort Put somewhere close to the Nereidsâ and the Oceanids, Amphitrite the girl of Nereus and Doris never got the distinction she may have earned as Poseidons associate. Dubiously embodied as the ocean or seawater, she turned into the mother of Triton (a merman) and conceivably of a girl, Rhodos.â Different Lovers Poseidon delighted in the joys of the tissue, looking for sentiment with goddesses, people, sprites and different animals. Not by any means physical structure made a difference to him: He could, and frequently transformed, himself or his darlings into creatures in order to stow away on display. Aphrodite, goddess of affection and beautyAmymone, the irreproachable Danaid who turned into a precursor of the authors of MycenaePelops, lord of Pelepponesia and an originator of the Olympic GamesLarissa, a sprite, whose three children with Poseidon in the long run administered all of ThessalyCanace, a human lady who bore the god five childrenAlcyone, one of the Pleiades, who bore Poseidonâ several youngsters Sexual Violence Poseidon, in the same way as other of the Greek divine beings, didn't act with immaculate good integrity. Truth be told, a large number of the accounts of Poseidon center around assault. In the fantasies, he assaulted Medusa in the sanctuary of Athena and Athena was so irate she transformed Medusa monstrous and her hair into snakes. In another story, he assaulted Caenis and after he began to look all starry eyed at her, he conceded her desire of changing her into a male warrior named Caeneus. In one more story, Poseidon sought after the goddess, Demeter. To get away, she transformed herself into a female horse however he changed into a steed and cornered her. Significant Offspring Some of Poseidons most prominent youngsters include: Charybdis, the ocean beast who (with Scylla) compromised the Strait of MessinaTheseus, the saint who filled in as the legendary organizer of AthensBellerophon, the legend who caught Pegasus and executed the Chimera Polyphemus, the one-looked at monster from The OdysseyProcrustes, the villainâ who claimed an iron bed to which he made his visitors fit by methods for his sledge Pegasus itself,â the celebrated winged pony, sprung from Medusas neck when Perseus conveyed the lethal blow. A few legends recommend that Poseidon fathered Pegasus, which would have made the pony relatives with his captor, Bellerophon. A few legends even suggestâ that Poseidon sired the slam that drag the Golden Fleece!