Amphitrite- The salty one
Amphitrite is the goddess and queen of the sea. Many people believed she was the daughter of Either Nereus and Doris She was one of 100 other children they had together, they were known as the Nereids (the daughters of Nereus) . She was married to the god of the sea Poseidon. He first saw her dancing on the island of Naxos, and he instantly fell in love. When he sued for her hand in marriage she ran to Atlas to keep herself pure to her true love Delphin, the god of the dolphins. Her true love surely found her and told her to marry Poseidon, for bringing her back,Poseidon sent Delphin to be among the stars and gave him a space in heavan. They lived in a golden palace under the sea near Aegea, Happier then ever. (Atsma)
When people decided her, many said she was the personification of the sea. Many also said she was very similar to Therassa, the spirit of the sea. When people painted her, many had her a young women with her hands raised with her fingers in a pinching look. some other artist had her holding a fish, because she is the goddess of the sea and they also had her riding on marine animals. Most pictures have her hair tied up in a net with horns. Some other paintings have her driving Poseidon in a chariot, drove by sea horses and other awesome sea creatures of the sea. The way people remember her is the way she danced with her sisters, They said her voice use to bring fish from all over the sea(Atsma)
People believed that all the fish and creatures in the ocean are Amphitrites offsprings with Poseidon. Amphitrite and Poseidon did have three children, the first born was the fish tailed boy named Triton, the messenger of the sea, the first girl named Rhodes, the goddess of the island Rhodes, and th...
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... who Amphitrite was and how women are now theirs many similarities. capricious and stubborn, and she used her beauty when she needed it. She was very opinionated, and judged many people on look and attitude. She always had to make her beauty noticeable, she always wanted all eyes on her. But she was very caring when it came to children she was there for the birth of Apollo, and helped Leto knowing her husband wouldn’t do the same. She helped out with anything as much as she could , She helped Theseus find the ring King Minos through in the ocean. He didn’t believe he was a child of Poseidon so he trough the ring in the sea for him to find it. Amphitrite grabbed it and placed right in Theseus hand. (Wiik)
Many people never really heard of Amphitrite but she was a very important Goddess to Poseidon and all the beautiful sea animals she helped raise and create .
In the beginning, it all started with the gods and goddesses Cronus (God of the Sky) and Rhea (Goddess of the Earth). They met and got married. While they were married they produced six offspring. These offspring would turn out to be some of the most famous in mythology. The offspring consisted of Hestia, Hades, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, and of course, the famous Zeus. Poseidon was the oldest son to be born from these two. Unfortunately when the offspring were born Cronus devoured most, even though Rhea tried many times to keep that from happening. Finally when Zeus was born she tricked Cronus into thinking it was his own son, when handed to him, and he eat him like all the others. But after doing so, Rhea told Cronus that she had given him a stone wrapped up in a blanket. Zeus later overthrew his father and released all of his other kin. After overthrowing Cronus, Zeus took over the ruler of the kingdom. With him taking the thrown on Mt. Olympus, he chose Hades to rule the underworld and Poseidon to look after the sea and land. Poseidon was a very powerful god and ruled with fury. He was made the god of waters in general and of the sea in particular (1). He is an equal in dignity to Zeus but not in power. This is important because it does not allow Poseidon to question his br...
Poseidon is a god with a lot of names he is most famous as the god of the sea, he controls the waves, the tsunamis, he cares for the plants and animals under the water he is Poseidon king of all waters. Poseidon had quite a bit of affairs. One affair involved his sister Demeter. He thought she was absolutely beautiful and desired her deeply. To avoid his constant sexual desires, Demeter turned herself into a mare, an act that only made Poseidon’s desire higher than ever. He turned himself into a stallion and raped her. This affair created a horse named Arion.
She is always spoken of respectfully and is remembered for her heroic deeds. She is not degraded like many of the other women Odysseus sees in the underworld. Everyone worships her and speaks about her achievements with great admiration; she is truly admired, but because she is a goddess. Athena has control over men that most women in The Odyssey do not. Women 's lives depend on what men think of them, on the other hand, men 's lives depend on Athena 's opinion of them. Athena is "Zeus ' virgin daughter" and no one has used her in that way. She is too important to be used as being an enjoyment for men; they depend on her for their own welfare. Another woman that plays a big role in this epic is Calypso. Calypso a nymph, a child of Zeus, and lives on an island in the middle of the ocean. One day Odysseus is sent to her by the god of the sea, Poseidon, because Poseidon was mad at Odysseus for blinding his son, the Cyclops. It is on this island that another woman is used as a sexual toy and is not thought of for her own achievements, but rather for her beauty, and the fact that she is the daughter of Zeus. Men in The Odyssey only value women who they can use for physical needs and wealth, such as the women in the underworld that Odysseus encounters, and Penelope. Homer shows us how men in The Odyssey consider women less important than men. The readers rarely hear of women throughout the book. When they do, they are shown
...aybe not so great, things during their lifetimes that are still remembered today. They were both main gods on Mt. Olympus. They may have not had many great times with each other according to myth, but they were still significant gods who had great lives. Many people use both of these gods to relate to things today, and she will be remembered for years and years to come. Her characters in Greek mythology are very significant and they will not be forgotten anytime soon.
Poseidon is the Greek God of the Oceans. He is Lord of the Seas, the Earth-shaker, Rain-maker and the Cloud-Gatherer. To the Romans, he is Neptune, the Great Sea God. Poseidon is the brother of Zeus and Hades. Together, they overthrew their father Cronus and the Titans and thereby became the ruling Greek Deities.
I am Poseidon, son of Cronos and Rhea. At birth my father Cronos swallowed me, but then I was thrown up. Many know me as god of the sea. Among sea god I am also god of rivers, floods, droughts, earthquakes, and horses. My brothers, Zeus of the sky, and Hades of the underworld, and I are known as the big three. This is probably since we have the most power. Other than Zeus and Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter were also my siblings. As a child I lived in Mount Olympus with my parents and siblings, but as I grew up and took responsibility for my powers I moved to a new home deep into the sea. Being a god I had children with both gods and mortals. My children with the mortals would be considered demi-gods meaning half god half mortal. The list of children is far too long to list. A few of my children are Aiolos, Asopos, Desopoine and Triton. Come take a dive into my life in a few short paragraphs.
One of the most notorious love affairs of Poseidon involves his sister, Demeter. Poseidon pursued Demeter and to avoid him she turned herself into a mare. In his lust for her, Poseidon transformed himself into a stallion and captured her. Their procreation resulted in a horse, Arion. Poseidon is Greek for "Husband" (possibly of wheat), and therefore it is thought that he and Demeter (goddess of wheat) are a good match because they reign as the god and goddess of fertility.
The society in which classical myths took place, the Greco-Roman society was a very patriarchal one. By taking a careful gander at female characters in Greco-Roman mythology one can see that the roles women played differ greatly from the roles they play today. The light that is cast upon females in classical myths shows us the views that society had about women at the time. In classical mythology women almost always play a certain type of character, that is to say the usual type of role that was always traditionally played by women in the past, the role of the domestic housewife who is in need of a man’s protection, women in myth also tended to have some unpleasant character traits such as vanity, a tendency to be deceitful, and a volatile personality. If one compares the type of roles that ladies played in the myths with the ones they play in today’s society the differences become glaringly obvious whilst the similarities seem to dwindle down. Clearly, and certainly fortunately, society’s views on women today have greatly changed.
Athena was one of the twelve gods in Greek mythology that lived on Mount Olympus. She was the daughter of Zeus the ruler of all the gods and the god of the sky. Athena had many titles is Greek mythology but her two most influential were the goddess of war and the goddess of wisdom. Some of the stories that will be discussed in this paper have multiple versions to them depending on who is telling them or what culture is telling them.
Athena was the virgin daughter of the great god Zeus and she was also one of the great
Another, more recent version of Medusa’s story sets her as once being a beautiful woman with shining hair and a beauty that many said rivaled Athena’s. She was a priestess/handmaiden in Athena’s temple. Poseidon, god ...
The goddesses Played a vital role in Greek society for they were responsible for many aspects of Greek. life, i.e., a life of a child. birth, harvest, etc. Accompanying the 6 major goddesses (Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Hestia, Demeter and Artemis) we have the lesser divinities such as the Muses, the Graces, the Fates, etc. The second level of women used in Greek mythology is that of the human.
The Greek gods and goddess have sparked my interest ever since seventh grade when I read The Percy Jackson Series. All throughout the books my attention was grasped by their power and demanding personalities, one specific goddess that stood out to me was Athena. Her charm and dominant personality fascinated me and definitely caught my attention. Before reading The Percy Jackson Series, I knew very little about Athena or the gods and goddess’ in general. Later, I took it upon myself to find out more about who the gods were and why they are important to the series I was reading at the time. My knowledge came in handy during the research I did to complete my paper. During my research I found that Athena was very important in not only The Odyssey, but in Greek mythology. She was one of the most confident and practical goddess’, and she was very well respected by the Greek people because of how she helped them.
Poseidon was the ruler of the sea, and a powerful god in Greek mythology who was often called the "Earth-shaker." His father was the Titan Cronus, who at the time was ruler of the Universe, and his mother was Rhea. Cronus was a paranoid ruler, because it had been prophesized that one of his own sons would dethrone him, just as Cronus had done to his father, Uranus.
Poseidon sent the sea monster Cetus (a whale like creature) to punish King Cepheus, Queen Cassiopeia and their kingdom by destroying it with floods. The only way Cepheus could save his lands and his own life was to sacrifice his daughter to Cetus so he had his young daughter chained to a rock and left to be eaten by the sea monster. Luckily, the hero Perseus rescued her; they got married and had six children. It is said the goddess Athena placed Andromeda’s image among the stars next to the constellation of Perseus.