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The trident also appears multiple times in popular culture: Poseidon's trident is owned by King Triton (Poseidon's son) in Disney's 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid and its sequels and spinoffs. Poseidon's Trident is a magical artifact with destructive powers in Michael Livingston's 2015 historical fantasy novel The Shards of Heaven. [17] [18]
Trident of Poseidon. A trident (/ ˈ t r aɪ d ɛ n t /), (/ ˈ t r aɪ d ɪ n t /) is a three-pronged spear.It is used for spear fishing and historically as a polearm.As compared to an ordinary spear, the three tines increase the chance that a fish will be struck and decrease the chance that a fish will be able to dislodge itself if struck badly.
Poseidon was enraged, and sent a drought to plague the city. One day, as an Argive woman named Amymone went out in search of water, came upon a satyr who tried to rape her. Amymone prayed to Poseidon for help, and he scared the satyr away with his trident. [187] After Poseidon rescued Amymone from the lecherous satyr he fathered a child on her ...
Poseidon's golden palace was located at Aegae on Euboea in one passage of Homer's Iliad 12.21. [4] [5] [6] [a] Unlike his father Poseidon who is always fully anthropomorphic in ancient art (this has only changed in modern popular culture), Triton's lower half is that of a fish, while the top half is presented in a human figure. Triton blowing a ...
Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν), king of the sea and lord of the sea gods; also god of rivers, flood and drought, earthquakes, and horses; Sangarius (Σαγγάριος), a river-god; The Telchines (Τελχινες), sea spirits native to the island of Rhodes; the gods killed them when they turned to evil magic; They built the Trident of Poseidon.
Poseidon versus a Giant (probably Polybotes), black-figure neck amphora c. 550–500 BC (Louvre F226). [8] In another version of the story, after being struck by Zeus, Polybotes swam away, Poseidon threw a trident at him but missed and the trident became the island of Nisyros or Porphyris. [9]
In the following battle between the forces of Athens and Eleusis, Erechtheus won the battle and slew Eumolpus, but then himself fell, struck down by Poseidon's trident. [13] According to fragments of Euripides' tragedy Erechtheus, Poseidon avenged his son Eumolpus' death by driving Erechtheus into the earth with blows of his trident, [14]
This mythological scene clearly depicts Poseidon (or Neptune to the Romans), bearded and muscular, with four horses and a trident, to the left. But it is not clear whether the central female figure, sitting on a shell boat, is intended as Venus, Poseidon's wife Amphitrite, or Galatea. [1]