Αλογάρης Ποσειδώνας

English translation: Poseidon, creator of the horse

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Greek term or phrase:Αλογάρης Ποσειδώνας, ίππιος Ποσειδών
English translation:Poseidon, creator of the horse
Entered by: Nick Lingris

16:11 Feb 25, 2007
Greek to English translations [PRO]
Archaeology / mythology
Greek term or phrase: Αλογάρης Ποσειδώνας
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Poseidon, creator of the horse
Explanation:
This is a modern Greek version of the ancient Greek ίππιος, used for Poseidon, for example in Aristophanes' The Clouds:
τον Ποσειδώ τουτονί τον ίππιον

According to LSJ, ίππιος = creator of the horse.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&rls=GGGL...


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Here: http://www.geocities.com/athens_5th_century/NEFELES.htm

Ναι, μα τον αλογάρη τον Ποσειδώνα.
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4 +3Poseidon, creator of the horse
Nick Lingris
3Poseidon as a horseman
Christina Emmanuilidou


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55 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Poseidon, creator of the horse


Explanation:
This is a modern Greek version of the ancient Greek ίππιος, used for Poseidon, for example in Aristophanes' The Clouds:
τον Ποσειδώ τουτονί τον ίππιον

According to LSJ, ίππιος = creator of the horse.
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&rls=GGGL...


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Note added at 56 mins (2007-02-25 17:07:28 GMT)
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Here: http://www.geocities.com/athens_5th_century/NEFELES.htm

Ναι, μα τον αλογάρη τον Ποσειδώνα.

Nick Lingris
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:55
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agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
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agree  Nadia-Anastasia Fahmi
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Poseidon as a horseman


Explanation:
Νομίζω ότι αναφέρεται στον Ποσειδώνα σε ορισμένες απεικονίσεις όπου οδηγεί το άρμα με λευκά άλογα στα κύματα...

In at least one Greek vase painting Poseidon is shown in a scene of the Gigantomachia riding on the back of a horse. So the imagery of Poseidon the horseman was not unknown...
http://www.mythography.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1058&s...

JSTOR: The Utilisation of Old Epigraphic CopiesPoseidon as a horseman is unusual in Greek art, but the Anatolian god is usually a horseman, often carrying a battle-axe on his shoulder. XII. ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0075-4269(1918)38%3C124%3ATUOOEC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O
This horseman aspect of the sea-god is merely poetical. Do we not still speak of the sea's 'white horses'? The racing, crested waves are galloping, rearing steeds."

This explanation we might perhaps regard as valid did Poseidon appear only in poetry as horseman. But it is another matter when we find him so figured in early art. On a fragment of Corinthian pottery not later than the seventh century B.C., Poseidon is represented riding on a horse. In his right hand he holds his trident fishing-spear, an attribute surely not of much use to the horseman! Then again, when we come to the ritual of Poseidon, we find that horses were solemnly sacrificed to him. Every ninth year, in Illyria, a yoke of four horses was sunk in the waters. Again, Pausanias tells us that the Argives threw horses bitted and bridled into Dione in honour of Poseidon. There is here no question of the "white horses" of the sea, for Dione, we know, was a fresh-water spring.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/mgr/mgr12.htm


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