Poseidon

Also known as: the Earth-holder and Earth-Shaker · Family: Olympians · Role: god · First appears: The Astronomy

In The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, Eurynome bore Bellerophon after lying with Poseidon, and Tyro bore Neleus and Pelias to him. The same works name Laestrygon and Minyas as his sons. In The Great Eoiae, Mecionice joined with Poseidon in love at Hyria and bore Euphemus.

In Homeric Hymn V: To Aphrodite, Hestia refused Poseidon and Apollo when they sought to wed her. Elsewhere, The Astronomy names Orion as his son; The Cypria calls Cycnus son of Poseidon his son; and The Contest of Homer and Hesiod identifies Aethusa as his daughter. In Homeric Hymn XXII: To Poseidon, the gods allotted him a two-fold office as tamer of horses and saviour of ships.

Relationship record

Life events

• Eurynome bore Bellerophon after lying with Poseidon.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 1–20)
  • With: Eurynome Bellerophon
  • “So she lay in the arms of Poseidon and bare in the house of Glaucus blameless Bellerophon”
• Tyro bore Neleus and Pelias to Poseidon.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 1–20)
  • With: Tyro Neleus Pelias
  • “Tyro the daughter of Salmoneus, having two sons by Poseidon, Neleus and Pelias”
• Mecionice bore Euphemus after joining with Poseidon in love.(The Great Eoiae · 📍 Hyria)
  • With: Mecionice Euphemus
  • “Or like her in Hyria, careful-minded Mecionice, who was joined in the love of golden Aphrodite with the Earth-holder and Earth-Shaker, and bare Euphemus.”
• Hestia refused Poseidon and Apollo when they sought to wed her.(Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 1)
  • With: Apollo Hestia
  • “But she was wholly unwilling, nay, stubbornly refused;”
• The gods allotted Poseidon a two-fold office as tamer of horses and saviour of ships.(Homeric Hymn XXII · To Poseidon)
  • With: the gods
  • “A two-fold office the gods allotted you, O Shaker of the Earth, to be a tamer of horses and a saviour of ships!”

The Astronomy

• child: Orion “Hesiod says that he was the son of Euryale, the daughter of Minos, and of Poseidon, and that there was given him as a gift the power of walking upon the waves as though upon land.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 1–20

• child: Bellerophon “So she lay in the arms of Poseidon and bare in the house of Glaucus blameless Bellerophon”
• child: Neleus “Tyro the daughter of Salmoneus, having two sons by Poseidon, Neleus and Pelias”
• child: Pelias “Tyro the daughter of Salmoneus, having two sons by Poseidon, Neleus and Pelias”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40

• child: Laestrygon “and the people sprung from Laestrygon who was the son of wide-reigning Poseidon.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 81–100

• child: Minyas “Clymene the daughter of Minyas the son of Poseidon and of Euryanassa, Hyperphas’ daughter, was wedded to Phylacus the son of Deion, and bare Iphiclus, a boy fleet of foot.”

The Great Eoiae

• courtship with Mecionice “careful-minded Mecionice, who was joined in the love of golden Aphrodite with the Earth-holder and Earth-Shaker, and bare Euphemus.”
• child: Euphemus “careful-minded Mecionice, who was joined in the love of golden Aphrodite with the Earth-holder and Earth-Shaker, and bare Euphemus.”

Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 1

• admired: Hestia “She was the first-born child of wily Cronos and youngest too , by will of Zeus who holds the aegis,—a queenly maid whom both Poseidon and Apollo sought to wed.”

The Cypria · Part 1

• child: Cycnus son of Poseidon “Achilles then kills Cycnus, the son of Poseidon, and drives the Trojans back.”

The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 1

• child: Aethusa “Apollo and Aethusa, daughter of Poseidon, had a son Linus, to whom was born Pierus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.