CLAS104 Lecture 4: Week 4 Readings

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Poseidon, sea deities, group divinities, and monsters: Poseidon god of waters in general, other god of waters however pontus (produced by ge), Oceanus & tethys (titans) produced oceanids, pontus and ge created nereus, nereus and doris produced nereids (mermaids: thetis, galatea, amphitrite) Thetis destined to bear a son mightier than his father zeus learned this from prometheus and avoided her, she married mortal peleus, had son achilles that was mightier than his father, Thetis could change shapes (eg. a bird, tree, etc. ) Third neried amphitrite is the wife of poseidon, much like zeus and hera, poseidon weakness for women, amphitrite vengeful, had a son tritin (merman, blew a conch), poseidon and tyro had neleus and pelias. Proteus attendant to poseidon, almost like his son, wise old man of sea, confusion about sea divinities nereus, proteus, triton. Poseidon made advances on scylla, amphritrite turned her into a monster out of jealousy.