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Poseidon's Appearance:Poseidon is a bearded, older man usually pictured with with seashells and other sealife.Poseidon's Symbol or Attribute:The three-pronged trident. He is associated with horses, believed to be seen in the crashing of waves on the shore. He is also believed to be the force behind earthquakes, an odd expansion of the power of a sea god, but possibly due to the association between earthPoseidon's Strengths:A creative god, designing all the creatures of the sea. Poseidon's Weaknesses:Parents: Kronos, god of time, and Rhea, goddess of the earth. Brother to the gods Zeus and Hades.

Children: Many - second only to Zeus in the number of illicit liaisons. With his wife Amphitrite he fathered a half-fish son, Triton. Dalliances include Medusa, with whom he fathered Pegasus, the flying horse, and Demeter, his sister, with whom he fathered a horse, Arion.

A Basic Story: Poseidon and Athena were in a competition for the love of the people of the area around the Acropolis. It was decided that the divinity who created the most useful object would win the right to have the city named for them. Poseidon created horses, but Athena created the olive, and so the capital of Greece is Athens, not Poseidonia.

Interesting Fact: Poseidon is often compared or combined with the Roman god of the sea, Neptune. In addition to creating horses, he is also credited with the creation of the Zebra, believed to be one of his early experiments in equine eng Warlike, though not so much as Ares; moody and unpredictable.quakes and tsunamis in Greece.

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