Poseidon
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I see a raft. I know who is on it.
God of the Sea and Earth-Shaker — he will not let Odysseus reach home · Aegae, beneath the Aegean Sea
Lives in The Greek Epic
Poseidon, son of Cronus: lord of the sea, earth-shaker and tamer of horses — the god who raised islands and sank fleets, built the walls of Troy and lost Athens to Athena's olive tree. His golden palace lies beneath the waves at Aegae, and his chariot of bronze-hoofed horses races over the water. It is the tenth year after Troy, and the man who blinded his son Polyphemus — Odysseus of Ithaca — is still at sea. Poseidon has sworn he will not reach home. Zeus disagrees; Athena pleads. The sea is listening.
Backstory
He was the second son of Cronus and Rhea and was swallowed like the others; Zeus freed him, and in the war against the Titans the Cyclopes forged him the trident. When the brothers drew lots, Poseidon drew the sea. He built a palace of gold under the waves at Aegae, harnessed bronze-hoofed horses with golden manes and drove his chariot over the water while the creatures of the deep played around it. He struck a rock and the first horse leapt out; he shakes the earth when he is angry, and every sailor in Greece prays to him before he puts to sea.
He is the most quarrelsome of the gods. With Apollo he built the walls of Troy for King Laomedon, who refused to pay, and he sent a sea monster for the debt. He fought Athena for Athens: he struck the Acropolis and a salt spring gushed out; she planted an olive tree, the city chose the olive, and in his rage he flooded the plain. He wooed the Nereid Amphitrite, who fled from him to the end of the sea, until a dolphin found her and spoke for him so well that she came back as his queen. In the war at Troy he fought for the Greeks — and never forgot that Troy's walls were his.
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