CLA204H5 Lecture 6: Lecture 6
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+ has power to raise a storm and calm the water. + earth held in common, but zeus is still supreme. + odysseus trying to return to ithaka from trojan war. + tries to appease poseidon, but still gets punished. + has to wander the seas for 10 years before getting home. + poseidon and apollo sent by zeus to build the walls of troy. + the king of troy at the time, laomedon, refuses to give them the promised gifts. + poseidon sent a sea-monster against troy as punishment. Nereus, a titan, son of pontus and gaea, with doris, father of the: Fifty nereids, sea-nymphs, the most famous being: + thetis, mother of achilles, the greek hero of the iliad. The mother of the nereids and consort of nereus was doris, one of the: Three thousand oceanids, other sea-nymphs, daughters of titans oceanus and tethys. + each (in theory) connected to a specific spring, pond, lake, etc.