The Role Of Poseidon In Ancient Greek Culture

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In the beginning in ancient Greek culture Poseidon was one of the most powerful Gods.Poseidon was held responsible for earthquakes,rivers,floods,droughts,and anything involving water in general. But one day in Mount Olympus located in the Olympus Range on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia,between the religion units of Pieria and Larissa.All the fish from the sea called out to Poseidon for help,that something must’ve happen terribly wrong,they were all covered with black goo stuff and changed the color of the sea. Because of the news brought to Poseidon he had to do something,he went to investigate the cause of the black goo,he found out that it was coming from ship leaking out black goo and it was spreading quickly throughout the

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