CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Trojan War, Oceanid, Odysseus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Poseidon and sea deities appearance: was impressive mature male with full beard and trident first generation. Concerns god of: the sea, earthquakes they used to have idea that the sea went under the land to create earthquake thus. Demeter and poseidon story demeter was searching for her daughter persephone and hades had stolen her into the underworld so poseidon sees her wandering and he conceives a lust for her. Many stories of him losing contests with other gods to be main god of certain greek states (ex. Athena vs. poseidon for city of athens their contest for best gift athena gave an olive tree and poseidon gave a salt spring. Heracles has to find the garden of hespirades and he has to chase down nereus to find out where garden is so he hangs on to him while he changes shape until given info. Proteus and triton: proteus said to be son of poseidon (not sure)