Mythology is filled with many stories about gods and goddesses, as well as the many journeys they went on. Mythology is a collection of myths that belong to a specific culture or religion. Greek mythology is one of those specific cultures. Throughout Greek Mythology, the myths consist of tales about irony, adultery, morals, crimes, and human disputes. One of the gods that continued to appear in certain myths about human disputes or adultery was Poseidon. People considered Poseidon to be a very famous god, but he was said to have a short temper and go into many disputes with the humans. Poseidon was the Greek god of any body of water and earthquakes. He was called “God of the Sea” and “Earth Shaker”. He was considered the
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In Homer’s The Iliad Odysseus blinded Poseidon’s son and received an epic punishment. Actually, if Odysseus had simply blinded Polyphemos he might have been forgiven, but Odysseus went too far, he added insult to his injury. Poseidon found Odysseus on a raft within sight of land. The sea and the wind rose at Poseidon’s command and with his trident, he staggered the sea and let loose the storm blasts against Odysseus and his tiny raft. Before the raft was smashed to splinters, a sea goddess, Leukothea, saw Odysseus and gave him her veil as protection from drowning but Odysseus was afraid that this was just another one of Poseidon’s …show more content…
An example of this would be in the myth of Ares and Aphrodite when they were trapped in the bed of Hephaestus. After all the gods have been summoned to see the adultery and laughing at it, Poseidon convinced Hephaestus to let Ares go, in spite of what had been done. Another time that Poseidon was being helpful, was when he saved Ajax from the sea after previously cracking his boat in half. This was due to Ajax saying that he taught Antichlous everything about horses, which was not true. Poseidon gave him a lesson, but because he liked the hero he spared his life. If Poseidon liked someone or they were his family, he never hesitated to give them anything the needed or asked
In Homer’s The Iliad Odysseus blinded Poseidon’s son and received an epic punishment. Actually, if Odysseus had simply blinded Polyphemos he might have been forgiven, but Odysseus went too far, he added insult to his injury. Poseidon found Odysseus on a raft within sight of land. The sea and the wind rose at Poseidon’s command and with his trident, he staggered the sea and let loose the storm blasts against Odysseus and his tiny raft. Before the raft was smashed to splinters, a sea goddess, Leukothea, saw Odysseus and gave him her veil as protection from drowning but Odysseus was afraid that this was just another one of Poseidon’s …show more content…
An example of this would be in the myth of Ares and Aphrodite when they were trapped in the bed of Hephaestus. After all the gods have been summoned to see the adultery and laughing at it, Poseidon convinced Hephaestus to let Ares go, in spite of what had been done. Another time that Poseidon was being helpful, was when he saved Ajax from the sea after previously cracking his boat in half. This was due to Ajax saying that he taught Antichlous everything about horses, which was not true. Poseidon gave him a lesson, but because he liked the hero he spared his life. If Poseidon liked someone or they were his family, he never hesitated to give them anything the needed or asked