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Zeus killed Campe and released these imprisoned giants to aid in his conflict with the Titans. The gods of Olympus eventually triumphed. Cronus and many of the other Titans were banished to Tartarus, though Prometheus, Epimetheus, and female Titans such as Metis were spared. Other gods could be sentenced to Tartarus as well.
In Greek mythology, the Titans (Ancient Greek: Τιτᾶνες, Tītânes, singular: Τιτάν, Titán) were the pre-Olympian gods. [1] According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), with six male Titans—Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus—and six female Titans, called the Titanides ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. Ruler of the Titans in Greek mythology Not to be confused with Chronos, the personification of time. For other uses, see Cronus (disambiguation). Cronus Leader of the Titans Rhea offers the stone to Cronus, red-figure ceramic vase c. 460-450 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...
The Titans were then imprisoned in Tartarus with the Hundred-Handers as their guards. [ 25 ] The lost epic poem the Titanomachy (see below), although probably written after Hesiod's Theogony , [ 26 ] perhaps preserved an older tradition in which the Hundred-Handers fought on the side of the Titans, rather than the Olympians. [ 27 ]
The large size of the frieze probably necessitated the addition of many more Giants than had been previously known. Some, like Typhon and Tityus, who were not strictly speaking Giants, were perhaps included. Others were probably invented. [139] The partial inscription "Mim" may mean that the Giant Mimas was also depicted.
The name given in Greek texts is Κάμπη, with an accent on the first syllable.As a common noun κάμπη is the Greek word for caterpillar or silkworm. It is probably related to the homophone καμπή (with the accent on the second syllable) whose first meaning is the winding of a river, and came to mean, more generally, any kind of bend, or curve.
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Iapetus ("the Piercer") [citation needed] is the one Titan mentioned by Homer in the Iliad as being in Tartarus with Cronus.He is a brother of Cronus, who ruled the world during the Golden Age but is now locked up in Tartarus along with Iapetus, where neither breeze nor light of the sun reaches them.