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Titans (mythology)
- 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.
- TitanomachyAfter winning the Titanomachy, Atlas alone was sentenced to hold up the sky. The other defeated Titans went to Tartarus.
- TheiaTheia, the Titan goddess of light, barely speaks in the myths that survive. Sun, Moon and Dawn all descend from her.
- 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.
- ThemisAphrodite asked the goddess Themis why her son Eros would not grow. Themis said he was lonely and needed a brother.
- EosEos got her lover Tithonus immortality but forgot eternal youth. In the end she turned him into a cicada.
- 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…
- HeliosHeracles once aimed his bow at Helios, the Greek sun god, for scorching him. Helios then lent him a golden cup.
- OceanusOceanus, a Titan, rode a winged steed to visit his chained nephew Prometheus. Prometheus mocked him anyway.
- Atlas (mythology)Atlas is a Titan of Greek mythology, and his name is printed on the spines of books in homes and libraries everywhere. Yet the myths describe him doing one thing for all eternity: carrying a burden that never lifted. What was it? Why was…
- MnemosyneZeus visited the Titaness Mnemosyne for nine nights, and she bore the nine Muses. Her name is the Greek word for memory.
- PrometheusPrometheus hid a live coal in a fennel stalk to bring fire back to people. Zeus had taken fire away after being tricked.