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In this aspect he was also a "bringer of stability", both in the personal sense, as a cane or walking stick might make an old man more stable, as well as in a more concrete sense, as in the stability of war fortifications. The
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when in the 4th century BCE they built new fortifications for their town. We also have evidence of several ancient inscriptions that urge townspeople to sacrifice to Poseidon Asphaleius in the aftermath of an
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means "safety", or an absence of instability. This epithet broadly describes him in a protector role, as the god who grants safety to ports and in sea navigation in general, a "guardian of the harbor".
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Lebreton, Sylvain (2024). "Dionysos in the Mirror of Poseidon: Crossed Onomastic Portraits". In Bonnet, Corinne (ed.).
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Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East: A Multidisciplinary Study of Seismicity Up to 1900
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regularly sacrificed to Poseidon Asphaleius to protect the city's walls, as did the
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Singular Dedications: Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece
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There are ruins of an altar to this aspect of the god on
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Index

Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek
epithet
Greek god
Poseidon
Taenarum
Kalaureia
Sparta
Erythraeans
Colophonians
earthquake
Aigai
Temple of Poseidon
Tainaron
Strabo
Geographica
Pausanias
Plutarch
Parallel Lives
Suda
Harrison, Jane Ellen
Mythology
The Ancient World
Smith, William
"Sparta"
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
Little, Brown and Company


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