All 11 Uses
Poseidon
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Circe
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- My uncle Nereus, once the mighty ruler of the sea, was now lackey to its new god, Poseidon.†
p. 15.8Poseidon = Greek mythology: the god of the sea (and earthquakes)
- Brooding Poseidon, whose trident commands the waves, and Demeter, lady of bounty, whose harvests nourish all the world.†
p. 32.7
- You were lord of the sea before Olympian Poseidon robbed you.†
p. 46.8
- They took him to Nereus, old Titan god of the sea, who in turn introduced him to Poseidon, his new lord.†
p. 51.2
- He was polishing a new trident, a gift from Poseidon himself.†
p. 52.1
- Hera, Poseidon, Aphrodite.†
p. 200.9
- They had been ambushed by the cyclops Polyphemus, a savage one-eyed giant who was a son of Poseidon.†
p. 207.4 *
- Odysseus had had to blind him to escape, and now Poseidon hunted them across the waves in vengeance.†
p. 207.5
- He would race across the sea, tacking between storms and Poseidon's great hand, his eye fixed on home.†
p. 227.2
- That Odysseus had not been able to take them had been a piece of Poseidon's vengeance.†
p. 275.5
- And Poseidon's wrath that everyone pitied him for?†
p. 321.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(Poseidon) Greek mythology: the god of the sea and earthquakes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)