Poseidon - Neptune
Poseidon was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes. His Roman equivalent is Neptune. Poseidon was protector of seafarers, and of many Hellenic cities and colonies. In Homer's Iliad, Poseidon supports the Greeks against the Trojans during the Trojan War and in the Odyssey, during the sea-voyage from Troy back home to Ithaca, the Greek hero Odysseus provokes Poseidon's fury by blinding his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, resulting in Poseidon punishing him with storms, the complete loss of his ship and companions, and a ten-year delay. Poseidon rides a chariot that was pulled by a hippocampus or by horses that could ride on the sea. He was associated with dolphins and three-pronged fish spears (tridents). He lived in a palace on the ocean floor, made of coral and gems.
Poseidon - Neptune Stamp Collection
Grenada 1973 Centenary of the world meteorological organization. Poseidon with his trident and horse and a storm detector
Sierra leone 1996 Poseidon, inspired probably from the Poseidon or Zeus of Artemision
Greece 2017 Poseidon of Livadostra , Bronze statue 480 BC, was discovered in 1897 laying near the shore
Algiria 1968 Neptune on his chariot, a mosaic work from Timgad 3rd century A.D , a roman city founded by Emperor Trajan orders around 100 A.D ,Algeria
Monaco 1996 Roman Mosaic. Neptune. Sousse (Hadrumetum), Tunisia. This mosaic was found in 1904 in good condition and it raised the enthusiasm of the Société Archéologique de Sousse, an association founded in 1903 by Louis Carton, a very active military doctor with a strong interest in archaeology.
The entire mosaic
Greece 1999 Poseidon and a sail boat, a detail of an Icon of the Painter Ioannis Kornaros (1745-1821) at the Toplou Monastery of Crete (1770)
Albania 1974 Poseidon is represented here by a statue found in Antigonia, a city in Chaonia, Epirus, and is exhibited in Tirana
Yemen Kingdom 1968 The block
Yemen Kingdom 1968 The stamp
Paraguay 1976
Ajman 1972
Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice BY TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista
(b. 1696, Venezia, d. 1770, Madrid)
This painting in the Sala delle Quattro Porte is one of the last public works commissioned by the Venetian Republic. As its thousand years of history drew to a close, the city Commissioned this painting of Neptune pouring out the treasures of the sea and the riches of commerce before Venice. It was commissioned from Tiepolo to replace a lost painting by Tintoretto. The dating is controversial because of the painting's stylistic anomalies. In homage to the context, the work takes up motifs typical of the golden age of Venetian art.
Italy 2004
CENTRAL AFRICA 1978 The Voyage of the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Spain from Barcelona to Genoa in April 1633, with Neptune Calming the Tempest, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1635 - Fogg Art Museum.
NEPTUNE, rides over a stormy sea in a shell drawn by sea horses (hippocampi). His progress is announced by a triton blowing a large conch shell. Attending the god's car are three swimming nereids. His long white hair and beard flowing, Neptune half stands on the shell and gestures broadly at three personifications of the wind above him. Beyond the sea god are several sailing vessels and triremes representing the fleet that the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand took from Barcelona to Genoa in April 1633.
Grenada 1991 Neptune Calming the Tempest, by Peter Paul Rubens
PORTUGAL 1998 Stampexhibition 'Portugal '98'' . 500th Anniv. of the discovery of the sea route to india.
Poseidon’s name is very old, and its meaning is lost to us. Various authors have tried to translate it as either “husband of the earth” or “lord of the waters.”
Cyprus 1989 Poseidon approaches Amymone, whose identity is symbolized by the water jug, with the Cupid above representing the erotic motive of the scene (Roman-era mosaic, House of Dionysos at Paphos) (3rd cent. AD)
AMYMONE was one of the Danaides--fifty daughters of King Danaus. The family emigrated from Libya to Argos in the Greek Peloponnese but arrived to find a land parched by drought. Danaus sent his daughters out in search of water and in the course of her wanderings Amymone came upon Lerna where she was seduced by the god Poseidon. As a reward he caused a spring of water to gush from the earth, relieving the Argive drought.
Malta 1938 A bronze statue of the sea god Neptune in the Fountain, in the old fish market at the Valletta Marina. The fountain, which was set up by Grand Master Wignacourt in 1615, was dimantled in 1858 and it is now in the Grand Masters Palace in Valletta. The market was destroyed to make way for a road extension. On the right the picture of the fountain
Italia 1974 The fountain of Neptune in Piazza del Nettuno Bolonia
Italia 1992 The fountain of Neptune in Piazza della Signoria Florence
Italia 1978 The fountain of Neptune in the Piazza Duomo in Trento, sculpted by Francesco Antonio Giongo from Lavarone
Sweden 1993 The fountain of Neptune by Carl Milles in Gothenburg, Sweden
DDR 1973 The fountain of Neptune in town hall street Berlin
POLAND 2004 The fountain of Neptune in the town hall gdansk (danzig)
Danzig 1937 The fountain of Neptune is located at the Długi Targ, in front of the entrance to the Artus Court. It was constructed in the early 17th century .The stamp Commemorates the winter aid in Danzig
Danzig 1929 The fountain of Neptune is located at the Długi Targ, in front of the entrance to the Artus Court.
The stamp Commemorates an international philatelic exhibition in Danzig
Usa 1958 Neptune and Mermaid. The Atlantic Cable Centenary
Latvia 1997 Neptune and Hermes Centenary of Ventspils International Commercial Port
Brazil 1973 Nepune and his trident . The Inauguration of submarine cable BRACAN I
Amphitrite was a daughter of Nereus and Doris (and thus a Nereid), according to Hesiod's Theogony, but of Oceanus and Tethys (and thus an Oceanid), according to the Bibliotheca, which actually lists her among both the Nereids and the Oceanids. Others called her the personification of the sea itself (saltwater). Amphitrite's offspring included seals and dolphins. She also bred sea monsters and her great waves crashed against the rocks, putting sailors at risk.Poseidon and Amphitrite had a son, Triton who was a merman, and a daughter, Rhodos.
Australia 1936 Amphitrite Australia/Tasmania Telephone Link
Greece 1964 The simbol of Paxos , the trident
Poseidon fell in love with Amphitrite the most beautiful of the Nereids who hid in a cave to escape the god’s attentions. Dolphin, however, revealed her hiding place to his friend Poseidon. The god abducted the shy beauty and carried her off on his chariot to Corfu. There he struck the ground with his trident cutting off the southern tip of Corfu and creating a separate island, Paxos, where he spent his honeymoon with Amphitrite. He lost, however, his trident in the sea where it was found by the Paxiots, who made it their emblem
Manama 1972 The Triumph of neptune and Amphitrite by POUSSIN, Nicolas (b. 1594, Les Andelys, d. 1665, Roma)
Burundy 1967 The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite by POUSSIN, Nicolas (b. 1594, Les Andelys, d. 1665, Roma)
In the center of the picture is depicted Nereid Amphitrite, Neptune’s spouse. She sits on the bull, whose body ends with a fish tail surrounded by numerous retinues. The two Nereids respectfully support the elbow and the pink blanket of Amphitrite, and the two newts trumpets her glory. The figure of Neptune is shifted to the edge of the picture to the left. With one hand he controls a troika of swiftly rushing horses, and the other holds a trident, a traditional attribute of the god of the seas. His gaze is turned to the beautiful Amphitrite. Still to the left, above the figure of Neptune, we see the chariot of the goddess of love Aphrodite, accompanied by cupids and with a lit torch in her hands.
Other cupids shower the main characters with flowers of roses and myrtle, symbolizing the love inclination and marriage of Neptune and Amphitrite. One of the cupids is aiming from a bow at Neptune, and the arrows of the second have already reached a man who carries a beautiful nymph on his shoulders. But who is represented in this scene of abduction?
The man’s face is not visible, it is covered with a hand, and therefore it can be assumed that Nereid Galatea is depicted here, and Polyphemus, in love with her, who was considered the son of Neptune. And we understand his gesture: the cyclop was outwardly ugly, and the artist avoided the image of ugliness in his painting.
The entire painting of POUSSIN
The ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, built during 444–440 BC, is one of the major monuments of the Golden Age of Athens. A Doric temple, it overlooks the sea at the end of Cape Sounion, at a height of almost 60 metres (200 ft).
Greece 1961 temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion
Greece 1926 temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion
Greece air issue aeroespresso
temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion
Greece 2006 Poseidon, Apollo and Artemis in the meeting of gods, bas-relief from the east frieze of Parthenon, 440 BCE., marble New Acropolis Museum, Athens
Greece 2010 Poseidon, Apollo and Artemis in the meeting of gods, bas-relief from the east frieze of Parthenon, 440 BCE., marble New Acropolis Museum, Athens
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The Saliera - Salt Cellar (created 1540 - 1543) is the unique existing goldwork of the Italian sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini (1500 – 1571); ordered by the French king Franz I.
Austria 2009 The sea - neptune in the Saliera - Salt Cellar
The Salt Cellar was created in the Mannerist style of the late Renaissance and allegorically portrays Terra e Mare (Land and Sea). In Cellini's description, the sea was represented by a male figure (Neptune) reclining beside a ship for holding the salt; the earth (Gaia)he "fashioned like a woman" and placed a temple near her to serve as a receptacle for pepper. The salt cellar is made of ivory, rolled gold, and vitreous enamel. The gold is not cast in a mould but hammered by hand into its delicate shape. It stands about 26 cm tall. The base is about 33.5 cm wide and features bearings to roll it around.
Austria 1971 the Saliera - Salt Cellar of Cellini
Italy 2013 the Saliera - Salt Cellar of Cellini
Burundi 1973 Jupiter and Neptune for The 500th Anniversary of the Birth of Copernicus