Here are some of the most significant consorts and children connected with Poseidon: While he fathered quite a few minor gods and goddesses as well as mythological creatures, he was also believed to have sired some heroes, such as Theseus. Poseidon was known to have had many lovers (both male and female) and even more children. More widely, however, he is known as the tamer of horses or simply as their father. Soon after, Demeter gave birth to the stallion Arion and mare Despoina. Arcadians believe that while in horse form, the stallion Poseidon pursued the goddess Demeter (who was also in horse form as a mare). Poseidon’s association with the sea and sailing meant that sailors venerated him, frequently praying to him and sometimes even sacrificing horses to him by drowning them.Īmongst the peoples of the isolated island Arcadia, Poseidon usually appeared as a horse and the river spirit of the underworld. Poseidon could also cause certain disorders, specifically epilepsy. When angered, however, he was believed to cause floods, earthquakes, drownings, and shipwrecks as punishment.

His more magnanimous side saw him creating new islands and calming the seas in order to aid sailors and fishermen. Poseidon was a major god and as a result was worshipped in many cities. Poseidon was given the seas to be his domain while Zeus received the sky and Hades the underworld. He freed his siblings, including Poseidon, by having Cronus disgorge them.Īfter his father, Cronus, was defeated, the world was said to then be divided between Poseidon and his brothers, Zeus and Hades. However, his son Zeus conspired with Rhea and overthrew Cronus. To thwart destiny, Uranus swallowed all his children. Uranus was fearful of the fulfillment of a prophecy which stated that one of his children would overthrow him. An Italian writer named Sara Giovinazzi published a blog post that used his sculpture to reflect on the idea of mythological inversions spread the image even further.Poseidon was one of the children of the Titans Uranus and Rhea, along with Demeter, Hades, Hestia, Hera and Chiron. He immediately noticed friends, then friends of friends, and then people he didn’t know at all, using the image to illustrate their reactions to the news, or as a profile photo. Garbati posted photos of the sculpture to his Facebook page earlier this year. The representations of Perseus, he’s always showing the fact that he won, showing the head…if you look at my Medusas…she is determined, she had to do what she did because she was defending herself. “This difference between a masculine victory and a feminine one, that was central to my work. “I was thinking of Perseus, this man with all his gadgets, going there and having this victory,” said Garbati. Standing at more than two meters tall, she’s larger than life, even more outsized than her social media presence. Though he sculpted her in clay, then cast her in resin with fiberglass reinforcement a decade ago, the work has only been in one show, and remains in his studio in Buenos Aires, available for sale in the original resin for $35,000, or in bronze for approximately $25,000 more, depending on the foundry. Before the attention on social media, Garbati’s Medusa had been lingering in relative obscurity.

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