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Poseidon's Mates and Offspring
(After Carlos Pandros)

Mates	Offspring	Description
Arethusa	Abas	Arethusa is one of the Nereids. Abas was king in the island of Euboea, where the inhabitants were called Abantians after him. He was father of Canethus and, some say, of Canthus. Canethus is an Argonaut. .
Larisa	Achaeus	Larisa is daughter of Pelasgus, son of Triopas, son of Phorbas, son of Argus, son of Zeus and Niobe, the daughter of Phoroneus the first man. Achaeus is the eponym of the district called Achaea
Arne	Aeolus	This Aeolus is said to have come in possession of the islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea which are called Aeolian after him.
Alcyone	Aethusa	Alcyone is one of the Pleiades.
A Nymph	Agelus	No Information
Libya	Agenor	Agenor, who sometimes is called son of Belus and Anchinoe, was born in Egypt but departed to Phoenicia and reigned there. He had children either by Telephassa, or by Argiope and they were:Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix, Cilix, Thasus, and Phineus.
Canace	Aloeus	Aloeus is the founder of Alus, a city of Aetolia.
Leis	Althepus	Althepus was king of Troezen.
Unknown	Amphimarus	Amphimarus is said to be the father of Linus, a great musician.
Melie	Amycus	Melie was a Bithynian Nymph. Amycus was king of the Bebrycians, who received the Argonauts. .
Althaea (or Astypalea)	Ancaeus	Althaea have a famous story as told under the Morai.. Ancaeus, king of Samos, is one of the Argonauts.
Unknown	Antaeus	Herakles dealt with Antaeus.
Alcyone	Anthas	Anthas founded Anthea or Anthedon (now Poros). Later he emigrated and founded Halicarnassus.
Demeter	Arion	Arion was a horse.
Pero (or Celusa)	Asopus	Asopus is a River God. He made his home in Phlius, but in search of his daughter Aegina, who had been carried off, he came to Corinth and learned from Sisyphus that the ravisher was Zeus. Asopus pursued him, but Zeus, by hurling thunderbolts, sent him away to his own streams.
Mideia	Aspledon	Aspledon gave his name to Aspledon, near Boeotian Orchomenus.
Tritonis	Athena	The Lake Tritonis in Libya. According to the Libyans Athena was the daughter of Poseidon and Lake Tritonis.
Cleito	The kings of Atlantis	Yes, all of them
Unknown	Augeas	Herakles dealt with him.
Libya	Belus	King of Egypt.
Amphitrite	Benthesicyme	Benthesicyme had two daughters by an Ethiopian husband.
Arne(or Antiope)	Boeotus	After Boeotus the Boeotians are called
Lysianassa (or Anippe)	Busiris	Herakles took care of him..
Celaeno	Celaenus	Celaeno is one of the Danaids .
Pirene	Cenchrias	Cenchrias gave his name to the Corinthian harbour of Cenchrae. When he died Pirene shed so many tears that she became a spring.
Chian	Chios	No information
Medusa	Chrysaor	Chrysaor was King of Iberia.
Chrysogenia	Chryses	Chryses succeeded Phlegyas as king of the Phlegyans. Father of Minyas.
Unknown	Corynetes	A bandit. He carried a club and with it killed anyone who passed by. Was killed by Theseus.
Unknown	Cromus	No information.
Molione	Cteatus	One of the Molionides. He is general of the Eleans against Herakles
Salamis	Cychreus	Cychreus became king of Salamis through killing a snake which ravaged the island and bequeathed the kingdom to Telamon, father of Ajax. The island is named after his mother.
Calyce		Cycnus	King in Colonae, a city in the Troad.
---	Cymopolea	Poseidon gave this daughter to Briareus on account of his braveness in the war against the TITANS.
---	Dercynus	Dercynus attempted, in Liguria, to rob Heracles of the cattle of Geryon
Demeter	Despoina	The real name of this mistress was not to be divulged to the uninitiated.
Agamede	Dictys	Agamede was the eldest of Augeas' daughters.
Eurycyda	Eleius	Eurycyda is daughter of Endymion. Eleius is the eponym of the Eleans, who live in.
Melantheia	Eirene
Iphimedia	Ephialtes	Poseidon consorted with Iphimedia, taking the form of the river Enipeus.
Canace	Epopeus	Epopeus was an immigrant from Thessaly. He became king of Sicyon.
---	Erginus	One of the Argonauts .
Unknown	Eryx	King over the Elymi in Italy, who challenged Herakles to wrestle because of a bull.
Chione	Eumolpus	Eumolpus was thrown into the sea by his mother and brought up by Benthesicyme. Cleansed Herakles of the slaughter of the Centaurs and initiated him at Eleusis. Fought on the side of the Eleusinians in their war against the Athenians and was killed by Erechtheus.
Europe	Euphemus (by some it is said Mecionice)	Mecionice was native of Hyria. Euphemus came from Psamathe to join the Argonauts. Received a magical clod from Triton and threw it into the sea, following a dream, and therefrom rose an island, Calliste, where his descendants, led by Theras, came.
Celaeno	Euphemus	Celaeno is one of the Pleiades .
Astypalea	Eurypylus	Eurypylus was king of Cos.
Molione	Eurytus	One of the Molionides. General of the Eleans against Herakles.
---	Eusiros
Pitana	Evadne	Evadne consorted with Apollo and became the ancestor of a family of seers.
Euryte	Halirrhothius
Antiope	Hellen
Alope	Hippothous	Poseidon transformed Alope into a spring that was called after her. Hippothous was exposed by her mother but was suckled by a mare. He became one of the Calydonian Hunters .
Canace	Hopleus
Alcyone	Hyperenor	Hyperenor is the founder of Hyperea.
Alcyone	Hyrieus	Hyrieus owned a treasure inside a building built by Trophonius and Agamedes, which had a stone that they could take away from the outside, thus robbing him, until one of them was caught in a trap made by Hyrieus.
---	Ialebion	Attempted, in Liguria, to rob Herakles of the kine of Geryon but was killed by him.
Arene	Idas	The city Arene in Messenia is named after her. Idas is one of the Argonaut and one of the Calydonian Hunters . He killed Castor, one of the Dioscuri .
Unknown	Laestrygon	From him sprang the people of the isle of Ortygia
---	Lamia	Lamia was seduced by Zeus and Sibyl was born. Sibyl is a surname, but this is the first woman who chanted the oracles at Delphi.
Pirene	Leches	Leches gave his name to the Corinthian harbour of Lechaeum.
Libya	Lelex	Lelex came from Egyp to Laconia and there he became king.
Themisto	Leuconoe
Celaeno	Lycus	Poseidon made Lycus dwell in the Islands of the Blest.
---	Lycus	A descendant of Lycus from Dirphys in Euboea, who killed Creon nd seized power in Thebes and in turn was killed by Herakles.
Oenope	Megareus	Came from Onchestus with an army of Boeotians to help Nisus in his war against Minos, But was killed in battle. The city of Megara was named after him.
---	Melas
---	Messapus	Messapus fought against Aeneas in Italy as an ally of Turnus.
---	Minyas	Owned a marvellous treasure in Orchomenus. The Minyans are called after him.
Melie	Mygdon	Melie was a Bithynian Nymph. Mygdon was the king of the Bebrycians who once fought with Priam against the Amazons .
Amymone	Nauplius	Amymone was one of the Danaids. Nauplius lived to a great age and to avenge the death of his son contrived for the wives of the Greeks fighting at Troy to play their husbands false [see Agamemnon ].
Periboea	Nausithous	Nausithous was king of the Phaeacians (Corcyra)
Tyro	Neleus	Neleus was exposed as a child. When he and his twin brother were grown up they killed their stepmother Sidero. Having been banished he came to Messenia and founded Pylos .
Canace	Nireus	Nothing is said about Nireus
Celaeno	Nycteus	Nycteus is said to be the father of Callisto .
Ascra	Oeoclus	Oeoclus founded Ascra together with the Aloads. [For the ALOADS see Zeus .]
---	Onchestus	After whom a city Onchestus was named in Boeotia.
Euryale	Orion	Euryale is a daughter of Minos . Orion was of gigantic stature. Poseidon bestowed on him the power of striding across the sea. He wooed Merope , the daughter of Oenopion . But Oenopion made him drunk, put out his eyes as he slept, and cast him on the beach. But he went to the smithy of Hephaestus , and snatching up a lad set him on his shoulders and bade him lead him to the sunrise. When he arrived there he was healed by the sun's rays.
Iphimedia	Otus	Poseidon consorted with Iphimedia, taking the form of the river Enipeus.
Cleodora	Parnassus	After Parnassus Mount Parnassus was named. Founder of the oldest city in Phocis.
Medusa	Pegasus	Pegasus is a winged horse which opened up a spring on a mountain by striking the rock with its hoof. Bellerophon mounted it when he went to kill the Chimera. It is said to have leapt forth from the teeming neck of the slain Medusa , its mane covered with blood.
Larisa	Pelasgus	The country Pelasgiotis is called after Pelasgus .
Tyro	Pelias	Pelias was king of Iolcus after Cretheus. He bade Jason to go in quest of the Golden Fleece. His daughters were persuaded by Medea to make mincemeat of their father and boil him, because Medea promised them to make him young again with her drugs.
Calchinia	Peratus	Peratus was king of Sicyon .
Astypalea	Periclymenus	Periclymenus was a defender of Thebes against the SEVEN .
Corcyra	Phaeax	From Phaeax the Phaeacians , who lived in Corcyra, received their name.
---	Phineus	Phineus was king and seer from Salmydessus in Thrace who had lost the sight of both eyes. He is variously alleged to have been blinded by the gods for foretelling men the future; or by Boreas and the Argonauts because he blinded his own sons at the instigation of their stepmother; or by Poseidon, because he revealed to the children of Phrixus how they could sail from Colchis to Greece. The gods also sent the Harpies to him. These were winged female creatures, and when a table was laid for Phineus , they flew down from the sky and snatched up most of the victuals, and what little they left stank so that nobody could touch it. But the Argonauts chased the HARPIES away. Being rid of them, he reve after Phthius.
---	Poltys	An Aenian.
Thoosa	Polyphemus	A huge, wild cannibal with one eye on his forehead, whom Odysseus blinded. Was in love with Galatea but was refused by her.
---	Procrustes	Offered hospitality to the passers-by and laid the short men on a big bed and hammered them, to make them fit in the bed, but the tall men he laid on a little bed and sawed off the portions of their bodies that projected beyond it. Was killed by Theseus .
---	Proteus	The Old Man of the Sea. A seer who knows all that has been, is now, and lies in store, though reluctant to answer questions. By his art he changed his real figure for a false semblance, but soon returned to his true form.
Theophane	Ram	Poseidon carried Theophane off and to deceive her suitors changed her into a ewe and himself into a ram. Ram is the ram with the Golden Fleece. It was given to Nephele by Hermes. It bore Phrixus and Helle through the sky to Colchis. This is the Golden Fleece which the Argonauts fetched.
a) Amphitrite	Rhode	Halia is a sister of the TELCHINES.
b) Halia
---	Sarpedon
---	Sciron	Disputed with Nisus about the throne. He compelled passers-by to wash his feet and in the act of washing he kicked them into the sea to be the prey of a huge turtle. Was killed by Theseus .
Hippothoe	Taphius	Taphius colonized Taphos and called the people Teleboans.
Nymph2 Tarentine	Taras

Thalatta	TELCHINES	Thalatta is the sea. The TELCHINES are sometime said to have nursed Poseidon and sometimes they are said ot be his offspring [see text above].
---	Thasus	Settled in an island off Thrace and founded a city, Thasus.
Aethra	Theseus	See Theseus .
Canace	Triopas
Amphitrite	Triton	For Triton see BESTIARY .
---	Urea
Beroe	---	After Beroe the city Berytos (Beyrut) in Lebanon was called. Aphrodite came to Harmonia, who possessed the oracles of Ophion, asking whether the gift of Justice would be assigned to the city of her own daughter Beroe. Dionysus fell in love with her and Poseidon as well. They had to fight for her but Poseidon won.
Erysichthon's Daughter	---	Her father's greed for food was so great that, at last, when all his fortunes had been swallowed up, he sold his daughter. But she prayed to Poseidon and the god changed her form, giving her the features of a man and garments proper to a fisherman. When her master went away her former shape was given back to her. But when her father noticed that his daughter had the power to turn into different forms, he sold her often and to many master. With each new master she changed into a new form.

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