Compare And Contrast Zeus And Poseidon

Poseidon was worshipped by most of the population in Ancient Greece. The Greeks prayed, worshipped, and devoted their lives to pleasing the gods. One of the main gods they worshipped was Poseidon. They prayed to him on a daily basis; they prayed for fish in the sea, no storms, and safe sea travels. When they upset him, Poseidon had the power to create storms and drown people in the sea. Although Poseidon was mythological, the people of the time still believed he was truly there and controlled many aspects of their lives. Poseidon was powerful, trusted, and a savior to the people of Ancient Greece; he was like the ‘Jesus of Ancient Greek Mythology’ because he shared the same qualities as Jesus Christ, the Christian and Catholic savior.

During the story Annabeth tells why there is a competition between Athena and Poseidon. One day Athena and Poseidon were competitors when inhabitants of Athens decided after whom to name the city and obviously Athena won. Another time, Athena saw Poseidon and a girlfriend of his in the temple. Also they, both, invented the chariot.

In one of his temper tantrums, Poseidon realized he was not happy with his ocean domain, and wanted to try and overthrow his brother, Zeus, and become king of the gods himself. Poseidon asked for help from Apollo, the god of light and music. Together, they bound Zeus with chains. Zeus had too much strength and power and freed himself very quickly. Zeus was furious with Apollo and Poseidon. As punishment, he sent them to work as laborers for Laomedon, the king of Troy, a city in what is now considered Turkey. Laomedon promised a very big reward if they could build a wall around the city of Troy. However, after they built the wall, Laomedon refused to honor his agreement and did not pay them for their work. In turn, Poseidon and Apollo sent a plague and a sea monster to destroy the city of Troy. (Gall.)

The next morning, Alcinous rose Odysseus and led him to the Parliament Square. Athena, in the shape of the king's herald, went around the city telling the people to come to the parliament to hear about the stranger that showed up at the palace the previous day. Soon the whole square was full of people. Alcinous introduced Odysseus to the crowd and said Odysseus had asked him to help Odysseus to get back to Ithaca. Alcinous asked the crowd for 52 oarsmen and for them to prepare a boat and when they had finished that, to come back to the palace.

Poseidon vied with Athena to be patron deity of Athens. The god demonstrated his power and benevolence by striking the Acropolis with his three-pronged spear, which caused a spring of salt water to emerge. Athena, however, planted an olive tree, which was seen as a more useful favor.

Lastly, the gods had a problem with being deceitful, especially with each other. When they really wanted something, they didn’t care if they had to lie or be dishonest to get it. Earlier in the battle, Zeus had told the gods that they couldn’t fight in the battle yet. Some time later, Zeus left the battle scene and went elsewhere to Mount Ida. If any of the gods would dare cross Zeus, the time was now and Poseidon

Once upon a time in a land kind of far away there was a man, and that man was the one and only Zeus. Now Zeus liked the people on Earth, so he wanted to give them a gift. He wanted to give them a gift unlike any other gift. He wanted to give the people a new animal, so he started to experiment. He went through many trials trying to get the perfect animal. He made the new animal short and tall he made them fat and skinny, but he just couldn’t make the right combination. Zeus, not able to make a perfect animal called for a meeting to every god. When everyone had arrived, Zeus asked for ideas. Zeus got many ideas, some good some bad. He listened to ideas for hours trying to find the perfect idea. Until he heard one god in the background talking about an animal.

One day, the twins were at peace, because it was their birthday. They planned a party for all the Greek gods and goddess to go to. They Party was going to be a big bash with a party and an after party. Harper and Aquamarina invited King Midas to come because he was the God of Gold and the twins coveted Gold. King Midas kept turning things to gold and could not make it to the party, so he came to the after party.

Long ago there were two gods. fighting to the death over whoevers was stronger.Poseidon tried to throw huge waves at him and ares used the power of his shield to block it,they combined to make a TSUNAMI! The Tsunami destroyed half the city where they were fighting and killed many people.The Tsunami began to spread and grow bigger and drain more and more like and water out of the ocean Poseidon and Ares began to panic they said we need to stop it before it destroys the whole city poseidon went on his dolphins to try and save everyone and bring them somewhere safe.Ares used his shield to stop the waves from hitting people. poseidon and ares worked together to stop the Tsunami.Poseidon needs to stop the water put it's to powerful so ares uses

Poseidon is the god of the sea, earthquakes and horses. He is a Greek god and a supreme god of Mount Olympus. He is brother to Zeus and Hades. These three gods created everything together. There are many gods under Poseidon such as Similarly or Nereus. They are gods of certain rivers. Poseidon Drives his chariot through the waves. He is married to Nereus’s daughter. She is the Seanymph, her name is Amphitrite. He wanted so badly to rule the Athens so him and the goddess of war, Athena, had a competition to win over the people of the city. Poseidon threw a spear at the ground and produced the Spring at the Acropolis. Athena however won the battle because she gave the people of the city olive tree. In anger of Poseidon he flooded the Attic

Hera: GOODBYE POSEIDON! Hera leaves instantly in search of Zeus Zeus: Who cares about Poseidon, I’ll mate with the water nymphs all I want. He doesn’t deserve to control the storm clouds anyway.

Arius had never realized the real power of Aratian until he saw him. “You stand no chance against me ,Arius” Aratian said. Then with one swing of his arm he defeated Arius.When Poseidon saw his son’s misbehavior he was furious. ”Aratian ,what have you done!” Poseidon bellowed. Poseidon turned his ill-behaved son into water before he could explain why he battled Arius to get his father’s power back. Even though Aratian meant good for his father, Poseidon turned him into water for attacking the village and the kingWithout Arius chaos ruled the city.Poseidon saw how the townspeople reacted and became angry that the townspeople depended and worshiped Arius instead of him.Poseidon turned the whole city into

Once upon a time there was a god named Zeus and he was the king of all gods. And when Zeus came down mount olympus to check on the people and how they were doing b but then he saw Hermes in stone running with a bag filled with coins on his bag. Zeus was very mad at Hermes for stealing the coins but he was even madder at the person who did this. He knew there was one person who of had to done this so he turned right on Medusa. Medusa was punished by cutting her snakes off her head. But when they did they grew right back and tried to turn Zeus into stone but Zeus had his lighting bolt to save him and turned it back on Midusa and Medusa’s snakes turned to stone. Medusa was so stunned that she froze and fell off the mountain. She created a big

Poseidon, the great Greek ruler of the sea , horses and the earthquakes. His ancestry comes from the family of the Olympians that roamed the world in 2200 B.C . With the father of Cronus and mother of Rhea and having the famous brother of Zeus. Who fortunately saved him from being ate by his notable father ,Cronus. He was saved when Rhea,” the mother of all gods”, had deceived Cronus into eating a rock instead of eating another one of his offspring (“Rhea”) .Similar to what Cronus he did to Hestia , Pluto , Hera and Demeter. Which at that time would have been the newborn, Zeus. When he ate the stone he resulted by throwing up all the children.

Ever since the beginning, I have outwitted my brothers, and it still continues today. Long ago Zeus, Hades, and I rolled a die to choose from one of Cronos’ empires when he died. First to choose was Zeus, and he chose the sky. His instinctive choice made me smile because he didn’t know that nothing existed in the sky. I chose second and quickly selected the sea because it offered so much for me. Unfortunately for Hades, he was last and got stuck with the underworld.