Curated playlist
Children of Gaia
- CoeusCoeus, also called Koios or Polus, was one of the Titans, the children of Uranus, the Sky, and Gaia, the Earth. Among the old gods of Greek myth, he is one of the quietest. He takes no active part in the stories. He turns up in lists of…
- Phoebe (Titaness)In Aeschylus's play The Eumenides, the Titan Phoebe gives Delphi's oracle to Apollo as a birthday gift.
- Rhea (mythology)Rhea tricked her husband Cronus into swallowing a stone instead of their baby. The real baby was hidden on Crete.
- TitansThe Titans, the gods who ruled Greek mythology before Zeus and his siblings, ended up behind gates of bronze. An old poem says it plainly: "They cannot get out, for Poseidon has set bronze gates upon it, and a wall is extended on both…
- CronusCronus swallowed five of his own children to avoid a prophecy. Rhea saved the sixth, Zeus, by handing him a stone.
- Uranus (mythology)In Greek myth, Cronus ambushed his father Uranus, the sky, with a sickle. His mother Gaia, the Earth, had made it.
- TriptolemusTriptolemus, a hero of Eleusis in Greek mythology, stands as a boy between two goddesses in a 5th-century relief now in the National Museum in Athens. The goddesses are Demeter and her daughter, the Kore. Demeter is handing him a golden…
- ThemisAphrodite asked the goddess Themis why her son Eros would not grow. Themis said he was lonely and needed a brother.
- TartarusIn Hesiod's Theogony, Tartarus was a god as well as a pit. It ranked third among the first gods.
- Tethys (mythology)Hesiod counted three thousand river gods, and another three thousand Oceanids, among the children of the Titan Tethys. In his telling, three thousand simply means too many to count. Yet the mother of this vast family has almost no story of…
- CriusCrius, also spelled Krios or Kreios, was one of the Titans, the children of Uranus, the Sky, and Gaia, the Earth. In Greek his name is written Κρεῖος or Κριός, and the second form is also the ordinary Greek word for a ram. Yet the myths…
- ErinyesIn Aeschylus's Oresteia, Athens put a man on trial for killing his mother. The Erinyes accused him.
- HecatoncheiresIn Homer, gods call a hundred-armed giant Briareus and mortals call him Aegaeon. The mortal name points to the sea.
- OceanusOceanus, a Titan, rode a winged steed to visit his chained nephew Prometheus. Prometheus mocked him anyway.
- MnemosyneZeus visited the Titaness Mnemosyne for nine nights, and she bore the nine Muses. Her name is the Greek word for memory.