The earliest attested occurrence of the name, written in Linear B, is ???? Po-se-da-o or ????? Po-se-da-wo-ne, which correspond to Ποσειδάων ( Poseidaōn) and Ποσειδάϝονος ( Poseidawonos) in Mycenean Greek in Homeric Greek it appears as Ποσειδάων ( Poseidaōn) in Aeolic as Ποτειδάων ( Poteidaōn) and in Doric as Ποτειδάν ( Poteidan), Ποτειδάων ( Poteidaōn), and Ποτειδᾶς ( Poteidas). 5.5 List of Poseidon's consorts and children.2.1 Linear B (Mycenean Greek) inscriptions.After the fight, Poseidon sent a monstrous flood to the Attic Plain, to punish the Athenians for not choosing him. Īthena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens after a competition with Poseidon, and he remained on the Acropolis in the form of his surrogate, Erechtheus. In Plato's Timaeus and Critias, the legendary island of Atlantis was Poseidon's domain. Poseidon is also the subject of a Homeric hymn. In Homer's Iliad, Poseidon supports the Greeks against the Trojans during the Trojan War and in the Odyssey, during the sea-voyage from Troy back home to Ithaca, the Greek hero Odysseus provokes Poseidon's fury by blinding his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, resulting in Poseidon punishing him with storms, the complete loss of his ship and companions, and a ten-year delay. Homer and Hesiod suggest that Poseidon became lord of the sea following the defeat of his father Cronus, when the world was divided by lot among his three sons Zeus was given the sky, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the sea, with the Earth and Mount Olympus belonging to all three. Poseidon was protector of seafarers, and of many Hellenic cities and colonies. He is often regarded as the tamer or father of horses, and with a strike of his trident, he created springs which are related with the word horse. In the myths of isolated Arcadia he is related with Demeter and Persephone and he was venerated as a horse, however it seems that he was originally a god of the waters. He had also the cult title "earth shaker". In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes. They now wear the establishment mantle, and it is their turn to be challenged.Poseidon ( / p ə ˈ s aɪ d ən, p ɒ-, p oʊ-/ Greek: Ποσειδῶν, pronounced ) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. Today the generation that was right on trade liberalisation has much of it wrong on climate change. They were right to turn Australia’s economy outward, and the establishment they challenged was wrong. “A generation ago, our leaders showed courage and vision in pushing for unilateral trade liberalisation – they knew it was good for Australia no matter how fast others acted. Quarry vision, he argues, is a trap and a blind faith we can no longer afford. He discusses the future of the coal industry and challenges the economic orthodoxy.
He exposes the shadowy world of the carbon lobbyists how they think, operate and advance their agenda.
How has this distorted our national politics and stymied action on climate change? In this powerful essay about the national interest, Guy Pearse dissects the Rudd government’s climate change response: from the Garnaut report to the silver bullet of “clean coal” and beyond. This is an essay about “quarry vision,” the belief that Australia’s greatest asset is its mineral and energy resources – coal above all. Why do our leaders pretend that they are leading the world in the battle against global warming? When do environmental risks outweigh economic benefits? Why dig deeper when the rest of the world is looking for alternatives to coal? Australia’s response to climate change must truly baffle outsiders.