Editing Poseidon (section)

=== Birth ===
[[File:Mosaique de Neptune au musée de Sousse, septembre 2013.jpg|thumb|left|340px| Poseidon-Neptune and triumphal chariot with a pair of sea-horses (Hippocamps). Mosaic, 3rd century. [[Sousse Archaeological Museum]], Medina, Tunesia]]

In the standard version, Poseidon was born to the [[Titans|Titan]]s [[Cronus]] and [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]], the fifth child out of six, born after [[Hestia]], [[Demeter]], [[Hera]] and [[Hades]] in that order.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D453 453-455]; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA67 p. 67].</ref> Because Poseidon's father was afraid that one of his children would overthrow him like he had done to his own father, Cronus devoured each infant as soon as they were born. Poseidon was the last one to suffer this fate before Rhea decided to deceive Cronus and whisk the sixth child, [[Zeus]], away to safety, after offering Cronus a rock wrapped in a blanket to eat.{{sfn|Hard|2004|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA68 68]}} Once Zeus was grown, he gave his father a powerful emetic that made him gorge up the children he had eaten. The five children emerged from their father's belly in reverse order, making Poseidon both the second youngest child and the second oldest at the same time. Armed with a trident forged for him by the [[Cyclopes]], Poseidon with his siblings and other divine allies defeated the Titans and became rulers in their place.{{sfn|Grimal|1987|loc=s.v. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas00grim/page/115/mode/2up?view=theater Cronus]}} According to [[Homer]] and Apollodorus, Zeus, Poseidon and the third brother [[Hades]] then divided the world between them by drawing lots; Zeus got the sky, Poseidon the sea, and Hades the Underworld.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D15%3Acard%3D184 15.184-93] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511082132/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text? |date=11 May 2019 }})</ref>

[[File:Andrea Doria as Neptun by Angelo Bronzino.jpg|thumb|right|220px|''[[Andrea Doria as Neptune]]'', by [[Angelo Bronzino]] .1540-1530, [[Pinacoteca di Brera]], Milan]]

In a rarer - and later- version, Poseidon avoided being devoured by his father as his mother Rhea saved him in the same manner she did Zeus, by offering Cronus a foal instead, claiming she had given birth to a horse instead of a god, while she had actually laid the child in a flock.<ref name="ReferenceA">In the 2nd century AD, a well with the name of ''Arne'', the "lamb's well", in the neighbourhood of [[Mantineia]] in [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]], where old traditions lingered, was shown to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]]. (Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Paus.+.8.8.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 8.8.2])</ref> Rhea entrusted her infant to a spring nymph. When Cronus demanded the child, the nymph Arne<ref>[[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] ad [[Lycophron]] 644</ref> denied having him, and her spring thereafter was called [[Arne (daughter of Aeolus)|Arne]] (which bears resemblance to the Greek word for 'deny').{{sfn|Kerenyi|1951|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.7346/page/n205/mode/2up?view=theater 182]}}

In another tale, Rhea gave Poseidon to the [[Telchines]], ancient inhabitants of the island of [[Rhodes]];<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html 5.55]</ref> [[Capheira]], an [[Oceanid]] nymph, became the young god's nurse.{{sfn|Grimal|1987|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas00grim/page/387/mode/2up?view=theater 387-388]}} As Poseidon grew, he fell in love with [[Halia of Rhodes|Halia]], the beautiful sister of the Telchines, and fathered six sons and one daughter, [[Rhodos]], on her.{{sfn|Kerenyi|1951|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.7346/page/n207/mode/2up?view=theater 183-184]}}{{sfn|Grimal|1987|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas00grim/page/387/mode/2up?view=theater 387-388]}} By that time [[Aphrodite]], the goddess of love, had been born and risen from the sea, and attempted to make a stop at Rhodes on her way to [[Cyprus]]. Poseidon and Halia's sons denied her hospitality, so Aphrodite cursed them to fall in love and rape Halia. After they had done so, Poseidon made them sink below the sea.{{sfn|Kerenyi|1951|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.7346/page/n207/mode/2up?view=theater 183-184]}}

In Homer's ''[[Odyssey]]'', Poseidon has a home in ''[[Aegae (Achaea)|Aegae]]''.<ref>Homer, ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D5%3Acard%3D365 5.380]</ref>

Minor myths

. [[Poseidon]] broke off a piece of the island of [[Kos]] called [[Nisyros]], and threw it on top of [[Polybotes]] ([[Strabo]] also relates the story of Polybotes buried under Nisyros but adds that some say Polybotes lies under Kos instead).<ref>[[Strabo]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+10.5.16 10.5.16]. The mention of a millstone, in the poem fragment by Alcman (mentioned above) may be an early reference to the island of Nisyros, see Hanfmann 1937, pp. 476; Vian and Moore 1988, p. 192.</ref>