Poseidon the God of the Sea and Athena, Zeus’s favourite daughter and the war goddess, had a quarrel. Both wished to be the patron god of Akte, a coastal city in Greece and neither was willing ...

Recounted in a regrettably short passage in Homer’s Iliad, early in Zeus’s reign, Poseidon conspired with Hera and Athena to overthrow him. They chained him up and would have succeeded in ...