When Poseidon came to take over, Nereus happily gave over the power, his palace, and his daughter Amphitrite as the queen. When the Cyclopes were released from the darkest pit of earth, they made a special weapon for each of the god. Poseidon received a trident. When his trident struck the ocean floor it could create earthquakes, shipwrecks, and other damages. This tends to happen when he is in a terrible mood.
The story begins when Percy Jackson discovers that his father is Poseidon which makes him a demi-god. Zeus’ lightning bolt was stolen and making Percy the suspect. If it is not returned by the summer solstice, there will be a great war in Olympia. He is now caught in between the battles of gods in Mt. Olympus.
Along their journey to the Ancient lands, the brave demigods find out that these twin giants plan on using Nico’s death as an “opening ceremony” which will lead to the destruction of Rome. To make matters worse, the Gaea breaks the two sides of demigods, Greek and Roman, apart, and now all, or most of the Greek gods have trouble keeping their Greek form, especially Athena (Minerva). This angers the goddess terribly, so she sends her daughter, Annabeth on a separate quest that even the bravest children of Athena have failed for centuries. Annabeth is to journey to the Tiber river, which is where her quest to find the mostfamous statue of Athena, the Athena Parthenon, which is guarded by someone who children of Athena have feared for centuries –The Weaver, Arachne. And while she was doing all this, the other six half-bloods had to find Nico, find a god that would help them defeat the giant twins, and make sure everyone got out of there alive, so, pretty much do the impossible,
There he figures out that he is a son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. Poseidon’s brother, Zeus the god of the sky, has his lightning bolt stolen from him and blames it on Percy and Poseidon. To prove his and his father’s innocence, Percy goes on a quest to find Zeus’s Bolt with his friends Annebeth and Grover. This book is on the SRC list for 19
The plot of this movie is a rather long one to explain. It starts out with Dilios, a Spartan soldier, narrates the story of Leonidas, from boyhood to the throne of Sparta. Years later, a Persian messenger arrives at the gates of Sparta, demanding the submission of Sparta to King Xerxes. In response to this demand, Leonidas and his guards kick the messenger into a large well to prompt a Persian attack, Leonidas visits the Ephors, ancient leprosy-ridden priests whose blessing he needs before the Spartan council will authorize going to war. He proposes they repel the numerically superior Persians by using the terrain of Thermopylae (the Hot Gates) and funnel the Persians into a narrow pass between the rocks and the sea.
Other stories say that Hephaestus interrupted an argument between Zeus and Hera, this angered Zeus and he threw him into the ocean. (Mythweb) Hephaestus was raised by sea nymphs. The sea nymphs raised him on an island, Lemnos. This is where he built his forge in a volcano. (Pantheon.org) Hephaestus has many talents, but also has weaknesses.
Poseidon and Odysseus are the most noticeable representatives of the theme of vengeance. In order to escape from the cave of the Cyclops (Polyphemus), Odysseus blinds the one-eyed giant (Book 9). Unfortunately, the Cyclops is the sea god Poseidon's son; Odysseus has engaged a formidable enemy. Poseidon can't kill Odysseus because the Fates have determined that he will make it home. However, the sea god can help to fulfill his son's wish that Odysseus should arrive in Ithaca late, broken, and alone, his shipmates lost, and his household in trash.
Greek heroes often put their lives in danger to save someone else, and typically descend from a divine ancestry. Among such great heroes such as Hercules and Achilles is the son of the Greek God, Zeus and the mortal princess of Argos, Danae. A divination declared that Perseus, their son, would grow up to kill King Acrisius, Danae’s father. Afraid of the prophecy, King Acrisius sent both Danae and her son floating through the sea in a chest. The chest was retrieved by Polydectes, the King of Seriphus, who later grew passionate about Danae and would’ve gone on to marry her by force had Perseus not been there.
Zeus does not care if Odysseus is kept or released, so he does as his daughter asks. As Athene requested, Odysseus is granted freedom and sails off on a shaft created by him. Poseidon still dislikes Odyseus, and as the god of the sea, he does what he is known for and shows his mighty power upon the ocean by creating great storms. Odysseus changes courses and arrives on the shore on some land where people by the name of Phaiakians live. With Athene at her ear, the princess of the land develops a crush for Odysseus.
Unleashing his wrath on Odysseus, Poseidon “churned the waves into chaos, whipping all the gales from every quarter, shrouding over in thunderheads the earth and sea at once” in an attempt to prevent Odysseus’s homecoming (Book V 322-324). Odysseus, near death due to the thrashing of waves and destruction of his raft, is now confronted by the goddess Ino. She tells Odysseus to abandon ship and swim for Phaeacian land. Ino gives Odysseus an immortal scarf to tie around his waist, proclaiming that he has “nothing to fear now, neither pain nor death” (Book V 383). Odysseus was very skeptical, stating, “I fear another immortal weaves a snare to trap me” (Book V 393).