As Polyphemus, also the other children of Poseidon were monstrous: Triton was half-man and half-fish, Pegasus was a winged horse, Arione was a speaking horse. The horse was sacred to Poseidon, and nowadays waves are still called "cavalloni" in Italian which means big horses. Dionysus was the most recent of the Greeks gods, who in older times was considered a not very important god, but then he became one of the most revered gods. According to the legend, Dionysus was son of Zeus and of the mortal woman, Semele.
