2023年3月13日 · Greek. The Titans are mentioned (albeit allusively) as early as Homer (eighth century BCE). They would have also played a central role in the Titanomachy, an early epic attributed to the Corinthian poet Eumelus (mid-eighth century BCE), but this work is now lost, and almost nothing is known about its contents (except, of course, that it told the story of the …

2023年3月10日 · The Titans included not only the original twelve children of Gaia and Uranus but also some of their descendants, such as Prometheus, Atlas, Metis, and Leto. Though they were sometimes represented as cruel in Greek mythology, the period during which the Titans ruled was nonetheless regarded as a Golden Age.

2022年11月29日 · 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 …

2022年12月9日 · The first generation of Olympians were children of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, themselves early rulers of the cosmos. Eventually, Zeus and his siblings overthrew the Titans and made themselves the new gods. They continued to rule undefeated (though not unchallenged) for the remainder of the Greek mythical period.

2023年3月10日 · Coeus, a Greek Titan whose name meant “inquiry,” was grandfather to the Olympians Apollo and Artemis. After he and the other Titans were banished to Tartarus, Coeus led an escape attempt, but he was ultimately driven back by Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the Underworld.

2023年3月10日 · Like many Titans, Phoebe seldom appeared in Greek texts. Her role in the Titanomachy and its aftermath, for example, is unsung and unknown. Hesiod’s Theogony, the most complete source for Greek myths on the origins of the cosmos, mentions her only twice. She first appears in a list of the children of Gaia and Uranus; according to Hesiod, Gaia ...

2023年7月14日 · Heracles kills only his children (and not Megara) in Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History 4.11.1 and Apollodorus, Library 2.4.12. ↩; Apollodorus, Library 2.5.1–12. ↩; According to Euripides, Heracles did kill the Ceryneian Hind (Heracles 375–79). ↩; Aristophanes, Frogs 651; Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 86, 125. ↩

2023年3月10日 · Themis was a Greek Titan most famous for embodying the concept of justice. Unlike the other Titans, she sided with the Olympians in their celestial war with her brethren. Today, her image survives as “Lady Justice,” wearing a chiton (a kind of tunic) and holding a set of balanced scales.

2023年3月11日 · Some authors tried to rationalize the Giants, taking away their monstrous attributes and transforming them instead into arrogant mortals who enslaved those around them and challenged the gods. Roman authors, meanwhile, tended to conflate the Giants with other fearsome opponents of the Olympian gods, including the Titans and the Aloads. Iconography

2023年3月23日 · The Hecatoncheires, also called the “Hundred-Handers,” were three children of Gaia and Uranus, named Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges. With fifty heads and one hundred arms each, these creatures were a force to be reckoned with and played an important role in the war between the Titans and Olympians.