Poseidon

As Homer’s Odysseus continues along his hero's journey in The Odyssey, he goes on the hunt for Ithaca passing into the belly of the beast, engaging on the dark road of trials testing the hero’s strength, wit, and courage, challenging their faith and will to persevere in such times of despair. Razing Troy to the ground, Odysseus returns his attention back to Ithaca. While on the hunt for Ithaca, supplies, and for what is truly important in life, he find himself tangled up in a dispute between the…

the fact that he is dyslectic and has a case of ADHD. Little does he know that he is actually the son of Poseidon, and also a demigod. In a matter of hours, his world will be turned upside down as he has to accept the responsibility to stop Zeus and Poseidon from going to war with each other, turning earth into a battle ground and wiping out all life on earth. As the story starts out, Poseidon the God of the sea is confronted by Zeus the God of the Sky. Zeus accuses his brother Poseidon’s son…

gods were ever present. Helping or hurting his hopes of going home to Penelope. Poseidon, Athena, and Hermes were the main three Gods in the story. They interfered in his travels countless times. At the beginning Poseidon was the God who is in charge of the oceans. He was the most terrifying towards the crew of Odysseus because he did the most to keep them from returning home. In the beginning of the story it was Poseidon who summoned the sea monster to take away the Greek who was trying to tell…

there time trying to please the gods so that they would give them wealth and prosperity, and tried not to anger them. Anger from these gods were recognized as natural occurrences such as lighting brought on by Zeus, or harsh waters brought on by Poseidon. They believed that positive natural occurrences were also brought on by these gods as they made them happy and worshiped each god equally to keep from offending other gods and goddesses. The Greek god were not perfect and often fought and…

by human characters in Homer 's Iliad gives rise to the inquiry of if agency is present among mortal characters, and if so, its scope of influence over their decisions making capabilities. In Book 14, Zeus is seduced by Hera; while Zeus is asleep, Poseidon intervenes with the war and helps to shift the tide of battle in favor of the Achaeans. Human agency, according to how it is defined in the lectures, is “the capacity to act ( . . . ) without the determining of outside forces such as gods, or…

Poseidon is the god of the sea who had created Atlantis, a once peaceful city. Poseidon had laws for the citizens of Atlantis to make sure there was peace throughout the city. His chief commandment required that no person should take up arms against another. In addition, Poseidon would set a curse on anyone who disobeyed this. The citizens’ change of behavior make a turn of events, as well as a moral for the readers. To start off, the citizens' behavior had changed. As time passed, the…

female fertility, motherhood, and generation. She was the daughter of Uranus, the sky god, and Gaea, goddess of the earth. Rhea then got married to her brother Cronos and had six children. The children they had were named Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera, and Zeus. These six children grew up to be known as some of the most famous greek mythology gods ever. Rhea´s most famous story is about her six children. Cronus ate all of them except Zeus. He ate all of them because Rhea's parents,…

Odysseus is very arrogant and thinks that he no longer needs the gods. Poseidon feels as though Odysseus has wronged him and needs to to taught a very important lesson. Poseidon declared that for this offence, Odysseus shall not return home and spend the rest of his life suffering, lost at sea until he can learn. Odysseus is lost at sea and away from his home at Ithaca for 20 years. However, on his long journey home Athena, Poseidon and Zeus either help and hinder him in learning…

Odysseus saying that Odysseus is a fool for telling him to respects Zeus and other Gods. Also, Cyclops continues to question Odysseus, asking what happened to Odysseus and his men’s ship. Odysseus answer Cyclops telling Cyclops that Earthshaker Poseidon broke the ship apart, driving the ship against the border of the island, up onto rocks. After Cyclops and Odysseus finish their conversation, Cyclops seized two of Odysseus’s men into his fist. Cyclops throws the men down on the ground.…

The next theme is perseverance. Penelope and Odysseus especially showed the most perseverance. One of the reasons that they showed the most perseverance is that they both are survivors. Odysseus was gone for twenty years, ten in the Trojan War and ten more in his voyage home. Penelope has persevered against the intruders for about four years, playing one against another with plenty schemes, in example, when she knitted a shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes. Odysseus' perseverance is…