Poseidon: The Ancient Greek God

Poseidon is the god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses. As god of horses, he often could adopt the shape of a steed and as god of earthquakes, he used the trident to make the earth shake causing earthquakes. Poseidon is a brother to Zeus and Hades. At birth Poseidon was swallowed whole by his father Cronus. After the overthrow of their father, Cronus these three gods divided up the universe. Zeus became ruler of the sky, Hades got control of the Underworld and Poseidon was given all water, both fresh and salt. After this the olympians agreed that the earth itself would be ruled jointly, with Zeus as the leader.

The god of the sea had a great amount of offspring. Although he had many offspring they were not always from the same woman. This made most of his children different in the way that they weren’t all of the same species. Poseidon had children that were sea creatures, giants, cyclopes, nymph ect. “Many of his sons became rulers in other parts of the ancient Greek world.” Like Thesues, he is a hero and a king of southern Greece, he is the son of Poseidon and Aithra. The point of this paragraph was to state that there are a lot of websites that have stated that Poseidon has had many children with …show more content…
Although Zeus wasn’t eaten, Zeus’s mother had a plan for when he was going to be born on how he would not be consumed by his father, Cronus. The plan was to hide Zeus and give Cronus a rock in a blanket to eat and Rhea and her parents did that. People may think that what happened was that both Zeus and Poseidon weren’t eaten but, there is more evidence that Poseidon was in most opinions eaten along with Hades. By this happening Zeus saved his siblings by making Cronus vomit and then destroyed Cronus, so that Zeus could rule the sky, Hades could lead the underworld, and Poseidon could rule over the sea both salt and fresh