Read the excerpt about Poseidon’s underwater home from The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens. This delightful abode was surrounded on all sides by wide fields, where there were whole groves of dark purple coralline, and tufts of beautiful scarlet-leaved plants, and sea-anemones of every tint. Here grew bright, pinky sea-weeds, mosses of all hues and shades, and tall grasses, which, growing upwards, formed emerald caves and grottoes such as the Nereides love, whilst fish of various kinds playfully darted in and out, in the full enjoyment of their native element. Nor was illumination wanting in this fairy-like region, which at night was lit up by the glow-worms of the deep. What does this excerpt reveal about the setting of this myth? the castle’s material riches the sea’s natural splendor the abundance of artwork the absence of activity

The sea’s natural splendor.

Explanation:

E. M. Berens' The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome presents an interesting insight into the world of the myths and legends that we know only through stories and fantasy movies. And in this text, he also provides an insight into the underwater home of the sea god Poseidon.

And in the excerpt, he describes the place as "surrounded on all sides by wide fields, where there were whole groves of dark purple coralline, and tufts of beautiful scarlet-leaved plants, and sea-anemones of every tint". Moreover, there were "bright, pinky sea-weeds, mosses of all hues and shades, and tall grasses,[] fish of various kinds playfully darted in and out...". Added to that "fairy-like region", there was no need or shortage of light which is provided by "the glow-worms of the deep". All these details depict the sea's splendor and the ethereal-like place of the sea kingdom.