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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3918708, member: 82322"]The <i>Encyclopedia Iranica</i> suggests rivers and earthquakes <a href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/poseidon-in-bactria" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/poseidon-in-bactria" rel="nofollow">before concluding</a> "As the inventor of horsemanship, Poseidon Hippios was often worshipped, trident and all, at inland Greek sites such as Mantinea in the central Peloponnesus. The historical primacy of cavalry forces in Bactria and surrounding regions makes sense of the victorious Poseidon appearing on the coinage of Antimachus I."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3918708, member: 82322"]The [I]Encyclopedia Iranica[/I] suggests rivers and earthquakes [URL='http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/poseidon-in-bactria']before concluding[/URL] "As the inventor of horsemanship, Poseidon Hippios was often worshipped, trident and all, at inland Greek sites such as Mantinea in the central Peloponnesus. The historical primacy of cavalry forces in Bactria and surrounding regions makes sense of the victorious Poseidon appearing on the coinage of Antimachus I."[/QUOTE]
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