Althepus was in

Greek mythology A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the Cosmogony, origin and Cosmology#Metaphysical co ...

a son of the Greek god

Poseidon Poseidon (; grc-gre, Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.Burkert 1985pp. 136–139 In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a ch ...

and Leïs, a daughter of Orus, king of Troezen. Pausanias, ''2.''30.5 The territory of Troezen was called "Althepia" after him. In his reign Poseidon and

Athena Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of ...

disputed the possession of the country with each other.Pausanias, ''2.''30.6 Althepus was the successor of Orus, and was succeeded by Saron.Pausanias, 2.30.7

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Children of Poseidon Troezenian mythology {{Greek-myth-stub