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Poseidon, Sea Deities and Monsters

Poseidon, Sea Deities and Monsters. Early Poseidon. Linear B Po-se-da-o E-ne- si -da-o-ne ( earthshaker ). Incuse silver stater ,  530-510 BC, from Poseidonia . Obverse: nude Poseidon with chlamys and trident. Poseidon/Neptune. Realm: sea, flood, earthquakes, horses

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Poseidon, Sea Deities and Monsters

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  1. Poseidon, Sea Deities and Monsters

  2. Early Poseidon • Linear B • Po-se-da-o • E-ne-si-da-o-ne (earthshaker) Incuse silver stater, 530-510 BC, from Poseidonia. Obverse: nude Poseidon with chlamys and trident.

  3. Poseidon/Neptune • Realm: sea, flood, earthquakes, horses • Animal: horse, dolphin • Plant: none • Symbols: trident, fish, horse, dolphin • Epithet: earth-shaker • Sacred Places: • Depiction: mature man, dark beard, trident • Neptune- very similar to Poseidon Poseidon from Melos, 2nd century BC

  4. Temple of Poseidon at Sounion

  5. Pontus ‘sea’ • Oceanus + Tethys= Oceanids • Pontus + Ge = Nereus • Nereus + an Oceanid (Doris) = Nereids • Thetis • Galatea • Amphitrite Oceanus, Trevi Fountain, 1762

  6. Amphitrite with downturned trident, (1866) Nereid nymph riding dolphin, Apulian red-figure pelikeC5th B.C Nereus the Old Man of the Sea, Athenian red figureamphora C5th B.C.,

  7. Peleus and Thetis Peleus and Thetis, Boeotian black-figure dish, ca. 500 BC–475 BC.

  8. Acis and Galatea Acis and Galathea, Auguste-Louis-Marie Ottin (French, 1811-1890), marble, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris

  9. Poseidon and Amphitrite The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite, Poussin, 1637 Triton with conch, Paestan red-figure kraterC4th B.C Triumph of Poseidon and Amphitrite, Roman Africa, 315 AD

  10. Poseidon, Mosaic floor in Ostia, 133 AD

  11. Fountain of Neptune, 1574, Piazza Navona, Rome Neptune, Bernini

  12. Scylla and Charybdis • Scylla- Phorcys + Hercate • Charybdis- Poseidon + Ge Scylla, Tiberius’ villa at Sperlonga, 1st century AD

  13. Pontus and Ge • Iris • Harpies • Graeae • Gorgons • Stheno • Euryale • Medusa • Apotropaic

  14. Pontus and Ge  An archaic Gorgon (around 580 BC), a pediment from the temple of Artemis in Corfu  Mercury holding the caduceus, on the right the throningJuno, behind her Iris; House of the Vettii, Pompeii

  15. Medusa’s Descendents • Meudsa + Poseidon • Pegasus • Chrysaor • Chrysaos + Callirhoë • Geryon • Echidna • Echidna + Typhon • Orthus • Cerberus • Hydra • Chimaera • Echidna + (son) Orthus • Spinx • Nemean Lion

  16. Medusa, Poseidon Descendants

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