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Encyclopedia > Titanomachia
Greek deities
series
Primordial deities
Olympians
Aquatic deities
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Personified concepts
Other deities
Titans
The Twelve Titans:
Oceanus and Tethys,
Hyperion and Theia,
Coeus and Phoebe,
Rhea, Mnemosyne,
Metis, Themis,
Crius, Iapetus
Sons of Iapetus:
Atlas, Prometheus,
Epimetheus, Menoetius

In Greek mythology, Titanomachy was the war between the Titans (fighting from Mt. Othrys) and the Olympians. It is also known as the Battle of Titans or Titan War. The war was foretold to Cronus by Gaia and Uranus because Cronus had refused to restore justice after his father was dethroned.


The Titans were led by Cronus and included: Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Thia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Menoetius. The Olympians were led by Zeus and included: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, the Hecatonchires, the Gigantes and the Cyclopes.


Having won victory after ten years of war, the Olympians divided the spoils between themselves, granting dominion of the sky to Zeus, the sea to Poseidon, and the Underworld to Hades. They then shut the defeated Titans within Tartarus. However, since during the war the female titans (the titanesses: Thia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys) remained neutral, they were not punished by Zeus. The Hecatonchires remained guard over them until, in time, Zeus set all but Atlas free.


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URANUS : Greek protogenos god of the sky ; mythology ; pictures : OURANOS (4579 words)
It was probably similar in most respects to Hesiod's, but with a few significant points of divergence--Ouranos, Gaia and Pontos, for example, were apparently represented as children of Aither (Upper Air) and Hemera (Day).
Eumelus of Corinth or Arctinus of Miletus, Titanomachia Fragment 2 (from Anecdota Oxon.
Eumelus of Corinth or Arctinus of Miletus, Titanomachia Frag 1 (from Photius) (trans.
Polytheism (550 words)
Deities first worshipped as the patrons of cities or places came to be collected together as empires extended over larger territories.
Conquests could lead to the subordination of the elder culture's pantheon to a newer one, as in the Greek Titanomachia, and possibly also the case of the Aesir and Vanir in the Norse mythos.
Cultural exchange could lead to "the same" deity being renowned in two places under different names, as with the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans; also to the introduction of elements of a "foreign" religion into a local cult, as with Egyptian Osiris worship brought to ancient Greece.
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