Poseidon: God of the Sea
The Ancients
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Polyhemus and Poseidon in Homer
I think Polyhemus only appears in the Odyssey and in these other texts that talk about the Cyclopies they don't talk about Poseidon. I think there is this idea of Poseidon being a wrathful god and a difficult god he's responsible after all for earthquakes right one of the most ferocious and terrifying things that happen in the Mediterranean world. Zeus and Athena want Odysseus to be okay and get back home but it's also going back to this bit of antagonism between Zeus and Poseidon. There are plenty of sanctuaries to Poseidon in those places as well if we go back briefly to the story of OdysseUS.
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