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Children of Gaia
- CoeusLatona, that Titaness whom Coeus sired, whoever he may be. Ovid in Metamorphoses VI.185 poses this question about a figure who played no active part in Greek…
- Phoebe (Titaness)The Greek name Phoibē carries the weight of light itself. It is the feminine form of Phoîbos, which means pure, bright, and radiant.
- Rhea (mythology)The earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus gave birth to Rhea as one of their twelve or thirteen Titan children. She grew up alongside her siblings…
- CronusThe sky father Uranus hid his youngest children, the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires and one-eyed Cyclopes, deep within Tartarus.
- Uranus (mythology)Most linguists trace the name Uranus to a Proto-Greek form called Worsanós. Originally reconstructed by Johann Baptist Hofmann, this root expands from Worsó-.
- TriptolemusA young boy named Triptolemus lay sick in the palace of Eleusis. Demeter, disguised as an old woman named Doso, found him weak and dying.
- TartarusIn the late 8th century BC, Hesiod wrote of a being named Tartarus who emerged from Chaos and Gaia. This entity stood as the third primordial deity in…
- Tethys (mythology)In the ancient Greek cosmos, Tethys emerged as one of the Titans, the children born from the union of Uranus and Gaia. Hesiod lists her among twelve siblings…
- CriusAncient Greek speakers used the word krios to describe a ram. The same syllables also formed kreios, which meant a type of mussel in that language.
- ErinyesUranus lay upon the earth as his son Cronus struck with a sickle. Drops of blood fell from the wound and stained the soil below.
- HecatoncheiresA political cartoon from 1890 depicts a three-headed giant with fifty heads and one hundred arms as an allegory for labor unrest.
- OceanusScholars have struggled for decades to explain the name Oceanus. M. L. West described its etymology as obscure and impossible to derive from Greek itself.
- MnemosyneIn the ancient Greek creation myth, a Titan named Mnemosyne emerged as one of the children born from Uranus and Gaia. Hesiod wrote in his Theogony around 700…