Poseidon: God of the Sea
The Ancients
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The Origins of Poseidon's Coinage
Some of the best archaic images of Poseidon are just like we described before of this bearded figure usually bearded occasionally at least on the coins. Not too far from Poseidonia there's a famous city Taras now Taranto in the sort of heel of the boot of Italy and on their coins they have a young man riding on a dolphin sometimes also with a trident. If we go back to the Greek mainland then I've got on my notes Sunion which is a cape that most ships as they approach Piraeus the port of Athens would go round. On the top of this great promontory is a beautiful temple it's still there.
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