Athena by Deacy Susan

Author:Deacy, Susan.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humanities
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2008-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

The opposition between Athena and Poseidon that we investigated earlier in this book (Chapter 3) is adapted to the local circumstances at Athens as they vie for supremacy, with the olive-giver, Athena, contrasted to Poseidon the elemental power who makes a ‘sea’ appear on the Akropolis summit. Athena is the bringer of civilisation, who creates the city’s staple crop. After her victory, she performs a further civilising act: that of name giving. Poseidon, in contrast, lives up to his nature as the elemental power of the sea, sending a flood in his ‘hot anger’. The myth expressed for the Athenians both why Poseidon merited worship as a powerful potentially dangerous deity and why Athena was better suited to the tutelary role as the provider of the gift more useful to the nascent city.

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