* Poseidon for UML – a commercial descendant of ArgoUML

Like Noah, Deucalion is a wine maker or wine seller ; he is forewarned of the flood ( this time by Zeus and Poseidon ); he builds an ark and staffs it with creatures – and when he completes his voyage, gives thanks and takes advice from the gods on how to repopulate the Earth.

Xenophon's Anabasis describes a group of Spartan soldiers in 400 – 399 BC singing to Poseidon a paean — a kind of hymn normally sung for Apollo.

Poseidon smites Ajax the Lesser, by Bonaventura Genelli ( 1798 – 1868 )

* February 19 – Poseidon bubble: shares in Australian nickel mining company Poseidon NL, which stood at $ 0. 80 in September 1969, peak at around $ 280 before the speculative bubble bursts.

** UGM-73 Poseidon – decommissioned

Theseus, visiting the underwater palace of his father, Poseidon, meets with Amphitrite, as witnessed by the goddess Athena and by some of the neighbourhood dolphins – here presented by the artist Euphronios.

A comedian, dancer, singer, and musician, Albertson is perhaps best known for his roles as Manny Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ), Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 ), Amos Slade in the 1981 animated film The Fox and the Hound ( 1981 ), and as Ed Brown in the 1974 – 1978 television sitcom Chico and the Man.

In Greek mythology, Thoosa or Thoösa (, ) was a sea nymph associated with swiftness, and the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the god Poseidon ( Odyssey, book I, lines 70 – 72 ).

* Melbourne Cup – Poseidon

* Melbourne Cup – Poseidon

1969 – 1970: The Poseidon bubble ( a mining boom triggered by a nickel discovery in Western Australia ) caused Australian mining shares to soar and then crash, prompting regulatory recommendations that ultimately led to Australia's national companies and securities legislation.

In Rick Riordan's fantasy series Percy Jackson and the Olympians ( 2005 – 2009 ), the protagonist Percy Jackson, a son of Poseidon, is named after Perseus.

* Sounion: A promontory identified with Poseidon Souniaratos ( Invoked at Sounion ), it is now to be identified with the hawk – Sounierax ( line 868 ).

Nestor and his sons sacrifice to Poseidon on the beach at Pylos ( Attic red-figure calyx-krater, 400 – 380 BC )

While half the cast battled the disaster on land, the rest of the cast was on a pleasure cruise aboard a ship that was overturned – à la The Poseidon Adventure – by a tsunami created by the earthquake.

The actions of the Greek cavalry in countering Carthaginian foragers prompted Hamilcar to send a letter to Selinus requesting them to send their cavalry to Himera on a given date that Hamilcar was to offer a sacrifice to Poseidon – a Greek deity whose worship probably required the presence of Greeks.

Other former members and associates returned – as session players only – for the Poseidon recordings, with all bass parts being handled by Peter Giles and Michael Giles performing the drumming.

The group was then augmented with supporting players, including another In the Wake of Poseidon alumnus – the noted jazz pianist Keith Tippett – together with Yes vocalist Jon Anderson, and brass / woodwind players Robin Miller, Mark Charig, and Nick Evans.

* " The Morning After " by Maureen McGovern – The Poseidon Adventure +

According to one theory, myths began as allegories for natural phenomena: Apollo represents the sun, Poseidon represents water, and so on.

Benvenuto Cellini created the Cellini Salt Cellar of gold and enamel in 1540 featuring Poseidon and Amphitrite ( water and earth ) in elongated form and uncomfortable positions.

Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and a spring sprang up ; the water was salty and not very useful, whereas Athena offered them an olive tree.

Apollo and Poseidon worked closely in many realms: in colonization, for example, Delphic Apollo provided the authorization to go out and settle, while Poseidon watched over the colonists on their way, and provided the lustral water for the foundation-sacrifice.

According to John Tzetzes and Servius ' commentary on the Aeneid, Scylla was a beautiful naiad who was claimed by Poseidon, but the jealous Amphitrite turned her into a monster by poisoning the water of the spring where Scylla would bathe.

* Trident, a three-pronged fishing spear associated with a number of water deities, including the Etruscan Nethuns, Greek Poseidon, and Roman Neptune.

Its Greek name, Kerkyra or Korkyra, is related to two powerful water symbols: Poseidon, god of the sea, and Asopos, an important Greek mainland river.

Euphemus was a son of Poseidon, granted by his father the power to walk on water.

He states that Inachus, Cephissus and Asterion were mediators in a land dispute between Poseidon and Hera ; when they judged for Hera, Poseidon took away their water ( elsewhere he writes that Poseidon flooded the region as his revenge ).

In the Danaan founding myth, Poseidon had dried up the springs of the Argolid out of anger at Inachus for testifying that the land belonged to the ancient goddess, Hera ; to counter this drought, Danaus sent his daughters to draw water.

Poseidon struck the rock of the Acropolis with his trident and a spring sprang up ; the water was salty and was not thought very useful, whereas Athena struck the rock with her lance and an olive tree sprung up.

Zeus asks Poseidon to calm the water ; he does and Danaë and Perseus survive, washing up on the island of Seriphos.

The gods ( Zeus, Poseidon or Apollo ) eventually killed them because they began to use magic for malignant purposes ; particularly, they produced a mixture of Stygian water and sulfur, which killed animals and plants ( according to Nonnus, they did so as a revenge for being driven out of Rhodes by the Heliadae ).

Improved technology has cut the cost of desalination in half in the past decade, making it more competitive ... Poseidon plans to sell the water for about $ 950 per acre-foot

In Greek myth, Poseidon used his trident to create water sources in Greece and the horse.

The Erectheum was associated with some of the most ancient and holy relics of the Athenians: the Palladion, which was a xoanon ( defined as a wooden effigy fallen from heaven-not man-made ) of Athena Polias ( Protectress of the City ); the marks of Poseidon's trident and the salt water well ( the " salt sea ") that resulted from Poseidon's strike ; the sacred olive tree that sprouted when Athena struck the rock with her spear in her successful rivalry with Poseidon for the city ; the supposed burial places of the mythical kings Cecrops and Erechtheus ; the sacred precincts of Cecrops ' three daughters, Herse, Pandrosus and Aglaurus ; and those of the tribal heroes Pandion and Boutes.

Environmentally sealed regulators avoid contact between the surrounding water and the moving parts of the first stage by isolating them in an antifreeze fluid ( e. g. Poseidon ) or by siting the moving parts behind a diaphragm and transmitting the pressure through a pushrod ( e. g. Apeks ).

Although Amphitrite gave birth to a merman, neither Poseidon nor Amphitrite were merfolk, although both were able to live under water as easily as on land.

Other moons of Neptune are also named for Greek and Roman water gods, in keeping with Neptune's position as god of the sea: either from Greek mythology, usually children of Poseidon, the Greek Neptune ( Triton, Proteus, Despina, Thalassa ); classes of minor Greek water deity ( Naiad, Nereid ); or specific Nereids ( Halimede, Galatea, Neso, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe ).

He wrote that " the Poseidon Adventure puts the Ark Movie back where God intended it to be, in the water.

There is some reason to believe that Poseidon, like other water gods, was originally conceived under the form of a horse.