Poseidon has a lot of children and has a violent family background. His father Cronus was afraid of a prophecy that said that one of his own sons would overtake him. So to avoid the prophecy, every time one of his children was born he would take the child and swallow them including Poseidon. Although there is some people who believe that Poseidon was not swallowed and was hidden by his mother Rhea and that instead of feeding Cronus a baby she gave him …show more content…
Poseidon had a violent family background because of Cronus eating him and his siblings to avoid a prophecy and then being saved by his brother and fighting Cronus to defeat him and put him in Tartarus. He also has a lot of kids such as Triton and Pegasus. Poseidon had multiple different conflicts such as the one with Athena when they had a competition on who was going to be the protector of Attica where Poseidon lost when Athena gave them the better gift with the olive tree. Another conflict was with Minos when he broke the promise of sacrificing the bull given to him by Poseidon. That caused Poseidon to punish Minos by making his wife fall in love with the bull leading to the Minotaur. Poseidon is represented by many things such as the Hippocamp, his trident, his cloak and robe, and his wreath of wild