Taureus

A surname of Poseidon, given to him either because bulls were sacrificed to him, or because he was the divinity that gave green pasture to bulls on the sea-coast.

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References

Sources

  • Hesiod. Shield of Heracles, 104.
  • Homer. Odyssey iii, 6.
  • Scholiast on Pindar's Nemean Odes vi, 69.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.