page_title: Poseidon
section_title: Narrations
hierarchical_section_title: Poseidon / In literature and art / Narrations
caption_attribution_description: Neptune‘s fountain in Prešov, Slovakia This medium shows the protected monument with the number 707-2257/0 in the Slovak Republic.
context_page_description: Poseidon was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes. He had also the cult title "earth shaker". In the myths of isolated Arcadia he is related with Demeter and Persephone and he was venerated as a horse, however it seems that he was originally a god of the waters. He is often regarded as the tamer or father of horses, and with a strike of his trident, he created springs which are related with the word horse. His Roman equivalent is Neptune.
  Poseidon was protector of seafarers, and of many Hellenic cities and colonies.
context_section_description: Poseidon myths as told by story tellers
  Bibliography of reconstruction: 
  Homer, Odyssey, 11.567 (7th century BC)
  Pindar, Olympian Odes, 1 (476 BC)
  Euripides, Orestes, 12–16 (408 BC)
  Bibliotheca Epitome 2: 1–9 (140 BC)
  Ovid, Metamorphoses, VI: 213, 458 (AD 8);
  Hyginus, Fables, 82: Tantalus; 83: Pelops (1st century AD)
  Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.22.3 (AD 160 – 176)
  Bibliography of reconstruction: 
  Pindar, Olympian Ode, I (476 BC)
  Sophocles, (1) Electra, 504 (430 – 415 BC) & (2) Oenomaus, Fr. 433 (408 BC)
  Euripides, Orestes, 1024–1062 (408 BC)
  Bibliotheca Epitome 2, 1–9 (140 BC)
  Diodorus Siculus, Histories, 4.73 (1st century BC)
  Hyginus, Fables, 84: Oinomaus; Poetic Astronomy, ii (1st century AD)
  Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.1.3 – 7; 5.13.1; 6.21.9; 8.14.10 – 11 (c. AD 160 – 176)
  Philostratus the Elder Imagines, I.30: Pelops (AD 170 – 245)
  Philostratus the Younger, Imagines, 9: Pelops (c. 200 – 245)
  First Vatican Mythographer, 22: Myrtilus; Atreus et Thyestes
  Second Vatican Mythographer, 146: Oenomaus
caption: Neptune's fountain in Prešov, Slovakia.
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