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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.
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 Titans were the previous generation, and family of gods, whom the Olympians had to overthrow, and banish from the upper world, in order to become the ruling pantheon of Greek gods. For Hesiod, possibly in order to match the twelve Olympian gods, there were twelve Titans: six males and six females, with some of Hesiod's names perhaps being ...
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 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.
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.
Coeus was an obscure figure, [4] and like most of the Titans he played no active part in Greek mythology—he appears only in lists of Titans [5] —but was primarily important for his descendants. [6] With his sister, "shining" Phoebe, Coeus fathered two daughters, Leto [7] [8] and Asteria. [9]
A great war was begun, the Titanomachy, between the new gods, Zeus and his siblings, and the old gods, Cronus and the Titans, for control of the cosmos. In the tenth year of that war, following Gaia's counsel, Zeus released the Hundred-Handers, who joined the war against the Titans, helping Zeus to gain the upper hand.