Homeric Hymn to Poseidon (22)

Catalogue ID: 02-olympian-gods/097-homeric-hymn-poseidon-22

Cycle: Olympian gods — Poseidon / short Homeric Hymn

Version line: Homeric Hymn XXII — praise of the Earth-shaker

Sources: Homeric Hymn to Poseidon (22); cf. Homer, *Iliad* 15.187–193 (lot of the sea); Hesiod, *Theogony* 453–458 (birth among Cronus’s children)

Source file: /workspace/greek-myth-catalogue/02-olympian-gods/097-homeric-hymn-poseidon-22.md

Characters

Cronus’s generation — implied birth among the Olympian siblings (background)
Poseidon — Earth-shaker; sea-lord; horse-tamer; ship-saviour

Places

Aegae — cult/place linked to the god in the hymn
Helicon — mountain held in the hymn’s geography of Poseidon
The deep — barren salt domain he moves

Themes

Narrative

The short Homeric Hymn to Poseidon begins from the god’s birth as a great god: Earth-mover, mover of the barren sea, who holds Helicon and wide Aegae. The poet assigns him a double *timē* among the gods—to be tamer of horses and saviour of ships. Closing with a hail to Poseidon Poseidaon the dark-haired lord, the singer asks for a kindly heart. The hymn is pure epithet and function: seismic and marine power, equine mastery, and maritime rescue. Catalogue it as the brief hymn-atom for Poseidon, distinct from narrative contests for cities and from the Homeric lot that gave him the sea.