Titans Of Greek Mythology
The first twelve titans were the children of the original gods uranus father sky and gaia mother earth.
Titans of greek mythology. According to hesiod s theogony there were 12 original titans. The brothers oceanus coeus crius hyperion iapetus and cronus and the sisters thea rhea themis mnemosyne phoebe and tethys at the instigation of gaea the titans rebelled against their father who had shut them up in. But what about the greek titans. The titans were the greek gods that ruled the world before the olympians.
Cronus the leader of the titans and the god of time. First generation titans of greek mythology. The titans included oceanus tethys hyperion theia coeus phoebe cronus rhea mnemosyne themis crius and iapetus. They were the children of the primordial deities uranus heaven and gaea earth.
They play an important role in greek mythology yet have not been popularized in modern culture. The most important of the titan gods were the twelve uranides cronus oceanus iapetus hyperion crius coeus rhea tethys theia phoebe themis and mnemosyne and the four iapetionides atlas prometheus epimetheus and menoetius. The uranides iapetionides. Out of the empty space of chaos came gaea the earth tartarus the underworld and eros desire.
Rhea cronus wife and queen of. Titan in greek mythology any of the children of uranus heaven and gaea earth and their descendants. Read on to learn more about the 12 greek titans and how they fit into the greek mythology you re familiar with. The original twelve titans.
Greek mythology greek gods titans titans i. The titans in the first generation are the aunts uncles and parents of zeus and company the well known olympian gods and goddesses these titans are the 12 children of the primordial personifications of the earth gaia and the sky. The titans were the deities in greek mythology that preceded the olympians. They were overthrown as part of the greek succession myth which told how cronus seized power from his father uranus and ruled the cosmos with the titans as his subordinates and how cronus and the titans were in turn defeated and replaced as the ruling pantheon of gods by zeus and the olympians in a ten year war called the titanomachy.
Now do you see why i said the titans were really big. History ancient greece greek mythology. The titans greek τιτάν plural τιτάνες were a race of powerful elemental deities of great size that ruled during the legendary golden age in greek mythology at the beginning there were only 12 titans apollodorus adds a thirteenth titan dione they were associated with various primal concepts some of which are simply extrapolated from their names.