Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Overview. The Titans were immortal deities who ruled the cosmos before the Olympians. The original twelve Titans—the children of the primordial gods Gaia (earth) and Uranus (heaven)—assumed power by overthrowing their tyrannical father, only to become tyrants themselves. Cronus, the youngest Titan, became king after usurping Uranus.
Avi Kapach is a writer, scholar, and educator who received his PhD in Classics from Brown University. The Titans were twelve powerful deities, born from the union of the primordial gods Uranus and Gaia. Cronus, the youngest of the Titans, overthrew Uranus to become ruler of the cosmos, though he was ultimately overthrown by his own son Zeus.
Mythology Themis and the Olympians. Unlike many of the other Titans, Themis was very close with the Olympian gods, especially Zeus. In fact, Themis became Zeus’ second wife (before he married his sister Hera) and bore him several immortal children. In some traditions, Themis was also one of Zeus’ nurses when he was a newborn.
One of the twelve Titans of Greek mythology, Hyperion was the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos —the gods of the sun, moon, and dawn, respectively. He was sometimes said to have participated in Cronus ’s rebellion against their father Uranus, and helped to establish his brother as ruler of the cosmos. In time, the Titans were supplanted by ...
Cronus, the second ruler of the Greek cosmos, was a Titan known primarily for his cruelty and for usurping his father Uranus. He fathered the first of the Olympian deities, including Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon and Zeus. Insatiably cruel and hungry for power, Cronus was ultimately deposed by his son Zeus, who ushered in the era of ...
Mythology Origins: Rhea, Mother of the Gods. According to Hesiod’s Theogony—the eighth-century BCE epic explaining the origins of the gods and the Greek cosmic order—Rhea was the daughter of Gaia (“Earth”) and Uranus (“Heaven”). She was one of the deities known as the Titans.
Overview. A primordial deity in Greek mythology, Uranus personified the sky, the heavens, and the air. He was usually said to have been the first offspring of Gaia, herself the first deity and the personification of Mother Earth. Uranus and Gaia were the complementary halves of a primordial partnership that created the cosmos as the Greeks knew it.
The son of Iapetus and Clymene, Atlas was a Titan famed for his prodigious strength and intelligence. Having been defeated by the Olympians in the Titanomachy, Atlas was condemned to bear the weight of the celestial sphere for all eternity. He was a popular figure in Greek mythology, and appeared in the stories of heroes such as Heracles and ...
The Greek primordial gods were the first beings to populate the cosmos and gave birth to all the subsequent gods, creatures, and mortals of Greek mythology. Two of these primordial gods, Gaia and Uranus, were the parents of the Titans and the grandparents of the Olympians.
Crius was one of the first Titans in Greek mythology and the offspring of Gaia and Uranus. An obscure figure, he was best known for fathering the wind god Astraeus as well as the fiery and warlike brothers Pallas and Perses. Crius joined forces with the other Titans in the cataclysmic war against the Olympians known as the Titanomachy.