He gives the the gift to Odysseus because he is the cousin of Poseidon and he is mad at him for some reason and he wants to show of that he is better than him!
Athena and Poseidon both wanted to be the patron god of the city of Athens. The people of the city agreed to hold a competition between the two to decide. They agreed that each would give the city a gift; whoever's gift was better would become patron of Athens. Athena's gift was an olive tree. Poseidon's gift was a salty spring of water from the ground. Athena's gift was better because it offered food, wood, and oil. Poseidon's wasn't very useful. The Athens people chose Athena, Poseidon became angry, and then he flooded the city.
She did not, one story in Greek myths tells that Athena and Poseidon fought over a town to see who could give it a better gift, Poseidon gave them salt water that did nothing for them, and Athena gave them an olive tree.
Poseidon gave a spring of salty water. Athena outbid him with an olive tree. Myth.
Athena competed with Poseidon to be the patron deity of Athens. They agreed that each would give the Athenians one gift and the Athenians would choose whichever gift they preferred. Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and a spring sprang up, but the water was salty and not very useful, whereas Athena offered them the first domesticated olive tree. In an alternative version, Poseidon invented the first horse.
Poseidon gave Demeter a magnificent white horse named Arion as a gift to win her love.
He gives the the gift to Odysseus because he is the cousin of Poseidon and he is mad at him for some reason and he wants to show of that he is better than him!
Athena and Poseidon both wanted to be the patron god of the city of Athens. The people of the city agreed to hold a competition between the two to decide. They agreed that each would give the city a gift; whoever's gift was better would become patron of Athens. Athena's gift was an olive tree. Poseidon's gift was a salty spring of water from the ground. Athena's gift was better because it offered food, wood, and oil. Poseidon's wasn't very useful. The Athens people chose Athena, Poseidon became angry, and then he flooded the city.
She did not, one story in Greek myths tells that Athena and Poseidon fought over a town to see who could give it a better gift, Poseidon gave them salt water that did nothing for them, and Athena gave them an olive tree.
Poseidon gave a spring of salty water. Athena outbid him with an olive tree. Myth.
Athena and Poseidon are enemies because the once both wanted a new city. They decided to have a contest for the city. Whoever could give the most useful gift to the city would win. Poseidon created a spring which was too salty to use. Athena made an olive tree. Athena's gift was judged the better of the two, so she won. She decided to name the city Athens. Athena and Poseidon were rivals ever since.
Athena competed with Poseidon to be the patron deity of Athens. They agreed that each would give the Athenians one gift and the Athenians would choose whichever gift they preferred. Poseidon struck the ground with his trident and a spring sprang up, but the water was salty and not very useful, whereas Athena offered them the first domesticated olive tree. In an alternative version, Poseidon invented the first horse.
Poseidon's Trident did give powers, for example he can control the waves and size, time and width of them!
Both Athena and her uncle Poseidon wanted to claim a certain city-state, so the only way for them to settle it was to give a gift to the people of the small city-state. Poseidon gave the gift of a spring of water to the people, but the people did not want the gift because they could not drink the water for it was oh so salty. Athena gave the gift of an Olive Tree, the people were more pleased with her gift because the tree could give them food, oil, and wood, so Athena won and named the city Athens. Your Welcome who ever put this question up
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Athena gave the Athenians an Olive tree. Poseidon gave them a salt water spring. olives were more valuable and so the Athenians chose Athena as their patron god. To the person above, Poseidon did not give them a saltwater spring, he gave them the first horse Actually, to the person above Poseidon gave the people a fountain not a horse... The person above you is right.
Zeus had the gods create her (which could be considered a gift, or curse) and gave her for wedding present the jar that contained the plagues of mankind.