Poseidon
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Poseidon is one of the twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. He was the protector of seafarers and the guardian of many Hell
The Poseidon of Melos, a statue of Poseidon found in Milos in 1877
Poseidon greeting Theseus (on the right). Detail, Attic red-figured calyx-krater by Syriscos Painter, 450-500BC from Agrigento. BnF Museum (Cabinet des médailles), Paris
Poseidon pursuing a woman, probably by Achilleus painter, 480–450BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan NY
Statue of Poseidon in Germany by Johann David Räntz and Lorenz Wilhelm Räntz (1760).
Zeus
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Zeus is the supreme deity of the Greek pantheon. He is a sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.
Poseidon
…reports that Poseidon became lord of the sea when, following the overthrow of his father Cronus, the world was divided by lot among Cronus' three sons; Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the sea, with the Earth and Mount Olympus belonging to all three. In Plato's Timaeus and Critias…
Zeus of Otricoli, a late Hellenistic or early Imperial bust after a 4th-century BC Greek statue
"Cave of Zeus", Mount Ida, Crete
Fresco of enthroned Zeus/Jupiter, Pompeii, House of the Dioscuri, 62-79 CE.
Zeus (centre left) battles against Porphyrion (far right), detail of the Gigantomachy frieze from the Pergamon Altar, Pergamon Museum, Berlin