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First came Poseidon, who struck the rock of the Acropolis with his mighty trident and brought salt water gushing forth.
has a visual energy all its own--a blizzard of boulders, the village blanketed with mauve ash, a bridge cracking apart and dumping its cargo of cars into a river" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). "The stupid thing gets the job done" (David Denby, New York ). Critics interpret the sudden outcropping of natural-disaster movies as nostalgia for the '70s and films such as The Poseidon Adventure and Jaws , "some of whose plot elements have been recycled here," says Denby.
Erechtheus — part man, part snake — was a legendary King of Athens who, over the generations, became closely connected with Poseidon.
Four temples loom over the forum and residential quarters of Poseidonia (as it was known before the Roman era), City of Poseidon.
Built beside an ancient Temple of Athena whose scant remains can just be seen, the Erechtheíon brought together the worship of Athena and Poseidon under one roof — legend says that following the contest between the two gods for the honor of protecting Athens, they were reconciled and this dual temple recognized their special bond with regard to the city.