In punishment for this presumption, Poseidon split the rock with his trident and Ajax was swallowed up by the sea.

Poseidon killing Ajax the Lesser

He boasted that even the gods could not kill him and Poseidon, upon hearing this, split the rock with his trident, causing Ajax to eventually drown.

The crew managed to land in a rock, but Poseidon struck it, and Ajax fell in the sea and drowned.

However, it begins first with the gods Athena and Poseidon discussing ways to punish the Greek armies because they condoned Ajax the Lesser for dragging Cassandra, the eldest daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, away from Apollo's temple.

Ares, upon one occasion, incurred the anger of Poseidon by slaying his son Halirrhothius, who had raped Alcippe, another daughter of the war-god.

This Arne became the mother of the second Aeolus, by the god Poseidon.

This Aeolus was a son of Poseidon by Arne, sister of Aeolus.

Arne confessed to her father that she was with child by the god Poseidon ; her father, however, did not believe her, and handed her over to a man named Metapontus, King of Icaria.

Poseidon carved the mountain where his love dwelt into a palace and enclosed it with three circular moats of increasing width, varying from one to three stadia and separated by rings of land proportional in size.

* Aba ( nymph ), Thracian naiad, mother of Ergiscus ( after whom Çatalca or Ergisce, took its name ) by Poseidon

Throughout the poem, Odysseus is hindered by the efforts of Poseidon and the sea monsters throughout the ocean.

Laocoön is a Trojan priest of Poseidon ( or Neptune ), whose rules he had defied, either by marrying and having sons, or by having committed an impiety by making love with his wife in the presence of a cult image in a sanctuary.

Nereus and Proteus ( the " first ") seem to be two manifestations of the god of the sea who was supplanted by Poseidon when Zeus overthrew Cronus.

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.

* Spercheides ( River Spercheios ); one of them, Diopatra, was loved by Poseidon and the others were changed by him into trees

* Aba, mother of Ergiscus by Poseidon

* Mideia, mother of Aspledon by Poseidon

When Poseidon finds out that Odysseus has escaped, he wrecks the raft but, helped by a veil given by the sea nymph Ino, Odysseus swims ashore on Scherie, the island of the Phaeacians.

When asked by other Cyclopes why he is screaming, Polyphemus replies that " Nobody " is hurting him, so the others assume that, " If alone as you are none uses violence on you, why, there is no avoiding the sickness sent by great Zeus ; so you had better pray to your father, the lord Poseidon ".

Released by the intercession of his patroness Athena, through the aid of Hermes, he departs, but his raft is destroyed by his divine enemy Poseidon, who is angry because Odysseus blinded his son, Polyphemus.

The illuminating exception is the archaic and localised myth of the stallion Poseidon and mare Demeter at Phigalia in isolated and conservative Arcadia, noted by Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ) as having fallen into desuetude ; the violated Demeter was Demeter Erinys.

Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea following the defeat of his father Kronos, when the world was divided by lot among his three sons ; Zeus was given the sky, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the sea, with the Earth and Mount Olympus belonging to all three.

* Poseidon for UML – a commercial descendant of ArgoUML

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.

* 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 +

* Poseidon – High-speed water coaster with incredibly detailed theming, such as the Trojan Horse, and the station being located inside a recreated Acropolis temple.