During the same period as the building of the Erechtheum, a combination of sacred precincts including the temples of Athena Polias, Poseidon, Erechtheus, Cecrops, Herse, Pandrosos and Aglauros, with its so-called the Kore Porch ( or Caryatids ' balcony ), was begun.

Perhaps the most striking example is the Athenian king Erechtheus, whom Poseidon killed for choosing Athena over him as the city's patron god.

When the Athenians worshiped Erechtheus on the Acropolis, they invoked him as Poseidon Erechtheus.

Yet Poseidon remained a numinous presence on the Acropolis in the form of his surrogate, Erechtheus.

" In cult, Poseidon was identified with Erechtheus ," Walter Burkert noted ; " the myth turns this into a temporal-causal sequence: in his anger at losing, Poseidon led his son Eumolpus against Athens and killed Erectheus.

Erechtheus (; Greek: Ἐρεχθεύς ) in Greek mythology was the name of an archaic king of Athens, the re-founder of the polis and a double at Athens for Poseidon, as " Poseidon Erechtheus ".

In the contest for patronship of Athens between Poseidon and Athena, the salt spring on the Acropolis where Poseidon's trident struck was known as the sea of Erechtheus.

The central gods of the Athenian acropolis were Poseidon Erechtheus and Athena Polias, " Athena patron-guardian of the city ".

Erechtheus and Butes divided the royal power possessed by Pandion, Erechtheus taking the physical rule but Butes taking the priesthood of Athena and Poseidon, this right being passed on to his descendants.

In the following battle between the forces of Athens and Eleusis, Erechtheus won the battle and slew Eumolpus, but then himself fell, struck down by Poseidon's trident ; according to fragments of Euripides ' tragedy Erechtheus. Poseidon avenged his son Eumolpus ' death by driving him into the earth with blows of his trident,

... and for your husband I command a shrine to be constructed in the middle of the city ; he will be known for him who killed him, under the name of ' sacred Poseidon '; but among the citizens, when the sacrificial cattle are slaughtered, he shall also be called ' Erechtheus '.

In some sources, Erechtheus also killed Eumolpus and that Poseidon asked Zeus to avenge his son's death.

Zeus killed Erechtheus with a lightning bolt or Poseidon made the earth open up and swallow Erechtheus.

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.

The temple itself was dedicated to Athena Polias and Poseidon Erechtheus.

For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.

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

While they were escaping, however, Odysseus foolishly told Polyphemus his identity, and Polyphemus told his father, Poseidon, that Odysseus had blinded him.

The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology ; both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon.

The most obvious identification for the " Two Queens " is with Demeter and Persephone, or their precursors, goddesses who were not associated with Poseidon in later periods.

Poseidon and Apollo, having offended Zeus by their rebellion in Hera's scheme, were temporarily stripped of their divine authority and sent to serve King Laomedon of Troy.

One day, Poseidon, filled with lust for Tyro, disguised himself as Enipeus, and from their union were born the heroes Pelias and Neleus, twin boys.

A variation of this story holds that they were formed from the mingling of Medusa's blood, Pain and sea foam, implying that Poseidon had involvement in their making.

John Chadwick believes that these were the precursor divinities of Demeter, Persephone and Poseidon.

They were related with the god of rivers and springs ; Poseidon and especially with Artemis, the Mistress of the Animals who was the first nymph.

During the next days, however, the Trojans drove the Achaeans back to their camp and were stopped at the Achaean wall by Poseidon.

Trident were also retrofitted onto 12 SSBNs of the James Madison and Benjamin Franklin classes, replacing Poseidon missiles.

Theseus, a great abductor of women, and his bosom companion, Pirithous, since they were sons of Zeus and Poseidon, pledged themselves to marry daughters of Zeus.

The most important deities were: Zeus, the supreme god and ruler of the sky ; Hera, his wife and goddess of marriage ; Athena, goddess of wisdom ; Poseidon, god of the sea ; Demeter, goddess of the earth ; Apollo, god of the sun, law, reason, music and poetry ; Artemis, goddess of the moon, the hunt and the wilderness ; Aphrodite, goddess of love ; Ares, God of war ; Hermes, god of commerce and medicine, and Hephaestus, god of fire and metalwork.

Cronus sired six children by Rhea: Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera and Zeus in that order, but swallowed them all as soon as they were born except Zeus, since he had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own child as he had overthrown his own father.

Caine was averaging two films a year, but these included such failures as the BAFTA Award-nominated The Magus ( 1968 ), the Academy Award-nominated The Swarm ( 1978 ), Ashanti ( 1979 ) ( which he claimed were the worst three films of all the other worst films he ever made ), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ( 1979 ), The Island ( 1980 ), The Hand ( 1981 ) and a reunion with his Sleuth co-star Laurence Olivier in The Jigsaw Man ( 1982 ).

The main Greek gods were the twelve Olympians, Zeus, his wife Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades.

Zeus's parents were Kronos and Rhea who also were the parents of Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter.

Both Zeus and Poseidon were occasionally consorts of Demeter.

Halia became Poseidon's wife and bore him Rhodos / Rhode and six sons ; the sons were maddened by Aphrodite in retaliation for an impious affront, assaulted their sister and were confined beneath the Earth by Poseidon.

Apollo and Poseidon were angry at king Laomedon because he refused to pay the wage he promised them for building Troy's walls.

In the Linear B Mycenean Greek tablets of circa 1400-1200 BC found at Pylos, the " two mistresses and the king " are identified with Demeter, Persephone and Poseidon.

On his way back to Mycenae from Iberia, having obtained the Cattle of Geryon as his tenth labour, Heracles came to Liguria in North-Western Italy where he engaged into battle with two giants, Albion and Bergion or Dercynus, sons of Poseidon.

In another version of the story, it was said that Poseidon sent the sea serpents to strangle and kill Laocoön and his two sons.

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.

Plato in his dialogue Cratylus gives two alternative etymologies: either the sea restrained Poseidon when walking as a foot-bond ( ποσί-δεσμον ), or he knew many things ( πολλά εἰδότος or πολλά εἰδῶν ).

Medusa, one of the Gorgons, has two children with Poseidon: the winged horse Pegasus and giant Chrysaor, at the instant of her decapitation by Perseus.

As a wedding present, Poseidon gave Peleus two immortal horses: Balius and Xanthus.

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.

However, the god Poseidon sent two sea serpents to strangle him and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus, before any Trojan believes his warning.

Poseidon, in archaic times the consort of the two goddesses Demeter and Persephone in Argos, had dried up all the region's springs after the Argolid was awarded to the protection of Hera.

Poseidon gave the two horses to King Peleus of Phtia, as a wedding gift, when Peleus married the Ocean goddess Thetis.

Aeson's mother Tyro had two other sons, Neleus and Pelias, with the god of the sea Poseidon.

A scholiast on the Iliad distinguishes between two possible eponyms: Phocus the son of Aeacus and Psamathe, and Phocus the son of Poseidon and Pronoe.

Poseidon looked after him and brought him to shore in Ethiopia, where Benthesikyme, a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, raised the child, who then married one of Benthesikyme's two daughters by her Ethiopian husband.

Benthesikyme in Greek mythology, according to the Bibliotheca, was a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite and wife of Enalos, by whom she had two daughters.

There were two distinct sons of Poseidon bearing the name Eurypylus.

The two, however, defended themselves and, with the aid of Poseidon, killed Theano's sons.

* Sunium and Geraestus: The sites of two temples of Poseidon ( southern tips of Attica and Euboea ), they are mentioned in an invocation to the god as a defender of the polis ( lines 560-1 ).

In the fore-temple are images, two of Poseidon, a third of Amphitrite, and a Sea, which also is of bronze.

The earliest finds of roof tiles in archaic Greece are documented from a very restricted area around Corinth ( Greece ), where fired tiles began to replace thatched roofs at two temples of Apollo and Poseidon between 700-650 BC.

Budgeted at $ 7, 000, 000 USD, Earthquake found itself in a race against the clock with the bigger-budgeted disaster film, The Towering Inferno, which was being financed by two movie studios ( 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers, a motion picture first ) and produced by Irwin Allen ( The Poseidon Adventure ).