Poseidon
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Pylos and the Greek world
- Greek
Named on Mycenaean tablets at Pylos where he outranked Zeus in offerings. God of the sea, earthquakes and horses, and the one most likely to hold a grudge across an entire epic.
Known for
- the trident
- earth-shaker
- grudge against Odysseus
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.