Not believing these stories were true was a serious crime in Ancient Greece! We might think of them just as entertaining stories but the Greeks took them very seriously as a way of explaining the world around them. There are a huge number of stories from Greek mythology. The olive tree that is there now isn’t really the one that Athena made grow! It was planted there, to match the ancient story about Athena and Poseidon, much more recently. These are actually copies - the original statues are in the nearby Acropolis museum, except for one, which is in the British Museum in London. The statues holding up the roof of the ‘Porch of the Maidens’ are known as the Karyatides. It has a strange design as it is built on very uneven land, and different parts of the temple were built separately. The Erechtheion is much smaller temple than the nearby Parthenon, but no less important. She couldn’t quite decide whether she thought they were true or not. It made her feel connected, to her city, to her gods. Acropolis, the Parthenon, the sculptures, the writings of Homer, and the adventures of Achilles. There was even a hole in the roof where Zeus had sent one of his thunderbolts to kill Erechtheus, the man whose name had been given to the temple.ĭelphi liked these stories. From Aphrodite to Apollo, Poseidon to Zeus, these are. Apparently, though she’d have to sneak in to check, there was still a hole in the floor where Poseidon’s trident had struck. located at the western end of the terrace of the acropolis. The people had judged Athena’s gift more useful, because they had loads of water anyway and olives hadn’t been invented yet, and so the city had been called Athens in her honour.ĭelphi could see the olive tree from where she sat. among other divinities, Zeus, Poseidon, and Athena.665 Her sanctuary has not been. Poseidon had struck the floor of the temple with his trident, making water flow, but then Athena had struck the ground with her spear and made an olive tree grow. It was here that the god of the sea, Poseidon, had challenged the goddess Athena for control of the city. There were all sorts of stories about this place. She got as close as she dared, then leant back and went on tip toes, trying to see inside. Then she saw the statues holding up the roof of the Erechtheion temple and decided that their necks probably had it worse. They probably built it like that on purpose. Everything about the buildings on the Acropolis made you look up, up to the heights, where the gods look down at you. Forklift is a symbol of power, not only triggering earthquakes and tsunamis, but also breaking rocks and pouring water from fields, and he fought Athena over Athens, and he decided to make the people choose Poseidon's Trident, Athena stretched out an olive branch, and finally the people chose Athens.Delphi’s neck was hurting. The 16 pillars are famous for Doric columns One of the three classical columns of Greece TIPS Greek mythology The gods are complicated, but there are so many you must know, such as Zeus, the goddess of the sea, Athena, and so on, according to Greek mythology Poseidon was Zeus' brother, who ruled the sea and all the waters, and his mount was a huge whale whose power was only under Zeus, but he was not satisfied with his plot to overthrow Zeus but failed to succeed, but was given three weapons by Zeus to the hands of Poseidon. The temple is built of the marble of the local Agrilesa. This is one of the romantic places to look out over the Aegean Sea, especially in the evening, the red sun falls on the blue Aegean Sea. The ruins of the Cape Sea Temple are 70 kilometers from the center of Athens.
Poseidon Temple (Temple of Poseidon) is a classical building dedicated to Poseidon in ancient Greek mythology built at 444BC and the famous Parthenon of Athens is located at the southernmost Sounion of the Attica Peninsula in southern Athens.
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