Greek Pantheonweapon
Trident of Poseidon
- Sea Control
- Earthquake Generation
- Storm Summoning
The three-pronged spear of the sea god, granting dominion over all oceans, rivers, and waters. With a single strike, Poseidon can summon earthquakes, storms, and tidal waves.
About Trident of Poseidon
Three tines, sea and earthquake
The same Cyclopes who forge Zeus's bolt make Poseidon's trident in Hesiod. Homer's Poseidon is earth-shaker as much as sea-king: the trident drives waves and knocks the ground. Athenian civic myth (Apollodorus and later) has him strike the Acropolis and leave a salt spring in the contest with Athena. Fish-spears and Roman Neptune statues keep the shape. No surviving Greek temple advertised the original as a votive in a box; it is the god's tool in hexameter, then an emblem in stone.
Origin
Forged by the Cyclopes alongside Zeus's thunderbolt and Hades's helm during the war against the Titans.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
These references are recorded in the catalog. Their passage wording and translation have not been checked, so quotations are not displayed here.
- Hesiod, Theogony (with Apollodorus's Titanomachy inventory)
- Apollodorus, Library 3.14
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