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Poseidon was said to have had many lovers of both sexes (see expandable list below). His consort was Amphitrite, a nymph and ancient sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus and Doris. Poseidon was the father of many heroes. He is thought to have fathered the famed Theseus. A mortal woman named Tyro was married to Cretheus (with whom she had one son, Aeson) but loved Enipeus, a river god. She pursued Enipeus, who refused her advances. One day, Poseidon, filled with lust for Tyro, disguised himself as Enipeus, and from their union were born the heroes Pelias and Neleus, twin boys. Poseidon also had an affair with Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, his son and King of Eleusis, begetting the Attic hero Hippothoon. Cercyon had his daughter buried alive but Poseidon turned her into the spring, Alope, near Eleusis. Poseidon rescued Amymone from a lecherous satyr and then fathered a child, Nauplius, by her. After having raped Caeneus, Poseidon fulfilled her request and changed her into a male warrior. A mortal woman named Cleito once lived on an isolated island; Poseidon fell in love with the human mortal and created a dwelling sanctuary at the top of a hill near the middle of the island and surrounded the dwelling with rings of water and land to protect her. She gave birth to five sets of twin boys(the firstborn who being named Atlas) became the first rulers of Atlantis.[28][5][6][7] Not all of Poseidon's children were human. In an archaic myth, Poseidon once pursued Demeter. She spurned his advances, turning herself into a mare so that she could hide in a herd of horses; he saw through the deception and became a stallion and captured her. Their child was a horse, Arion, which was capable of human speech. Poseidon also had sexual intercourse with Medusa on the floor of a temple to Athena.[29] Medusa was then changed into a monster by Athena. When she was later beheaded by the hero Perseus, Chrysaor and Pegasus emerged from her neck. There is also Triton (the merman), Polyphemus (the cyclops) and, finally, Alebion and Bergion and Otos and Ephialtae (the giants).[29] List of Poseidon's consorts and children Female lovers and offspring Amphitrite Triton Benthesikyme Rhode (possibly) Aphrodite Rhode (possibly) Herophile the Sibyl (possibly) Demeter Despoina Areion, the talking horse Gaea Antaeus Charybdis Hestia (wooed her unsuccessfully) Aba, nymph Ergiscus[30] Agamede Dictys Aethra Theseus Alistra[31] Ogygus Alcyone Aethusa Hyrieus Hyperenor Hyperes Anthas Alope Hippothoon Amphimedusa, Danaid Erythras Amymone Nauplius Arene Idas (possibly) Arne / Melanippe Aeolus Boeotus Arethusa Abas Ascre Oeoclus[32] Astydameia, daughter of Phorbas Caucon Astypalaea Ancaeus Eurypylus of Kos Beroe (daughter of Aphrodite) Boudeia / Bouzyge Erginus Caenis Calchinia Peratus Canace Hopleus Nireus Aloeus Epopeus Triopas Celaeno (Pleiad or daughter of Ergeus) Lycus Nycteus Eurypylus (Eurytus) of Cyrene Lycaon Celaeno, Danaid Celaenus Cerebia[33] Dictys Polydectes Ceroessa Byzas Cleodora Parnassus Chione Eumolpus Chrysogeneia Chryses, father of Minyas Corcyra, nymph Phaeax Coronis Diopatra, nymph of Mount Othrys Euryale, daughter of Minos Orion (possibly) Eurycyda Eleius Eurynome (Eurymede), daughter of Nisos Bellerophon Euryte / Bathycleia Halirrhothius Halia Rhode (possibly) six sons Harpale / Scamandrodice / Calyce Cycnus Helle Almops Edonus Paion Hermippe Minyas (possibly) Hippothoe Taphius Iphimedeia The Aloadae Laodice[34] Larissa Achaeus Pelasgus Pythius Leis, daughter of Orus Altephus[35] Libya Agenor Belus Lelex Lysianassa / Anippe Busiris Mecionice / Europa, daughter of Tityos Euphemus, Argonaut Medusa Pegasus Chrysaor Melantheia, daughter of Alpheus Eirene Melantho (daughter of Deucalion) Delphus Melia Amycus Mygdon Melissa, daughter of Epidamnus Dyrrhachius[36] Mestra Mideia Aspledon Molione The Molionides Mytilene Myton[37] Oenope Megareus of Onchestus (possibly) Olbia, nymph Astacus[38] Ossa Sithon (possibly) Peirene Cenchrias Leches Periboea Nausithous Pero, nymph / Kelousa, nymph Asopus (possibly) Pitane, nymph / Lena Euadne Phoenice Torone[39] Pronoe, daughter of Asopus Phocus Rhode[40] Ialysus Cameirus Lindus Rhodope, daughter of Strymon Athos[41] Salamis, daughter of Asopus Cychreus Satyria, nymph of Taras Taras (eponym of the location)[42] Syme Chthonius Themisto Leucon (possibly) Theophane The Ram of the Golden Fleece Thyia Tyro Pelias Neleus Thoosa Polyphemus Daughter of Amphictyon, unnamed Cercyon Nymph of Chios, unnamed Chios Nymph of Chios, unnamed (another one) Melas Agelus unknown consorts Amphimarus[43] Amyrus, eponym of a river in Thessaly[44] Aon, eponym of Aonia[45] Astraeus and Alcippe of Mysia[46] Calaurus[47] Corynetes (possibly) Cymopoleia Cromus (eponym of Crommyon)[48] Geren, eponym of a town or village Geren on Lesbos[49] Dicaeus, eponym of Dicaea, a city in Thrace[50] Euseirus (father of Cerambus) Ialebion (Alebion) and Dercynus (Bergion) of Liguria[51] Laestrygon, eponym of the Laestrygonians Lamus, king of the Laestrygonians Lotis (possibly) Messapus Onchestus[52] Ourea[53] Palaestinus[54] Phorbas of Acarnania Poltys Procrustes Proteus Sarpedon of Ainos Sciron Syleus Taenarus (possibly) In Plato's myth of Atlantis, Poseidon consorted with Cleito, daughter of the autochthons Evenor and Leucippe, and had by her ten sons: Ampheres, Atlas, Autochthon, Azaes, Diaprepes, Elasippus, Euaemon, Eumelus (Gadeirus), Mestor, Mneseus.[55] Male lovers of Poseidon Nerites Pelops Patroclus[56] |
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