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Titans (mythology)
- 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.
- TitanomachyA great sickle forged from adamantine waited in a crevice on Mount Othrys. Gaia hid this weapon there to use against her husband Uranus.
- TheiaTheia is the Greek goddess from whom all light was said to proceed, and yet she barely speaks a line in the myths that survive.
- 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.
- EosThe Proto-Greek form of the dawn goddess is reconstructed as auhōs. This linguistic root connects her to the Vedic goddess Ushas, the Lithuanian goddess…
- 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.
- HeliosThe word helios comes from a Proto-Indo-European root that ancient scholars trace back to the dawn of language itself. Walter Burkert noted in his 1985 book…
- 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…
- PrometheusThe name Prometheus appears in the late 8th-century BC Greek epic poet Hesiod's Theogony. Scholars debate whether this name signifies forethought, as his…