2023年3月13日 · According to Orphic accounts, the Titans tore apart and ate the god Dionysus, Zeus’ successor. In a fury, Zeus struck the Titans down with his thunderbolt, and humanity was created from the ashes. This myth was used to explain the violent tendencies of human beings: we are part Titan, after all.

2023年3月10日 · The Titans were the first children of the primordial Greek deities Uranus and Gaia. Two of these Titans, Cronus and Rhea, became the parents of the original generation of Olympians, who overthrew the Titans, just as the Titans had overthrown Uranus before them.

2015年6月18日 · The word "Titan" is used to denote a class of mythological entities that existed before "Gods" were born and Titans are usually used to describe the creation of the world. All titans were born from Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), which were the first mythological creatures to be created when the world was formed.

2022年12月7日 · Helios, often known simply as “the Titan,” was the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. He served as both the god of the sun and the sun personified. Every day, Helios drove his chariot across the sky to bring light to the world.

2023年3月8日 · Cronus is featured as a recurring character in the God of War video game series and serves as a major antagonist in God of War III (2010). In Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series, Cronus appears as Kronos, a nefarious troublemaker who acquires an attitude after four thousand years of captivity in Tartarus. He leads an ...

2023年3月10日 · Hesiod (eighth/seventh century BCE): In the Theogony, Tethys is named as a Titan and the wife of her brother Oceanus. Plato (428/427–348/347 BCE): The dialogues Cratylus and Timaeus refer to certain cosmogonies (presumably Orphic) in which Oceanus and Tethys are two of the first beings to come into existence and the origin of all life in the ...

2023年3月9日 · Rhea was the daughter of Gaia, the primordial goddess of the Earth, and Uranus, the primordial god of the skies. Their union brought forth not only Rhea, but the other Titans as well: Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Thea, …

2023年3月9日 · Hecate appears in some versions of the birth of Zeus. This myth tells of how the Titan Cronus, Zeus’ father, swallowed each of his children as soon as they were born, fearing they would someday overthrow him. But when his last child, Zeus, was born, Cronus’ wife Rhea decided to save the newborn’s life at all costs.

2023年9月12日 · Dione herself was either a Titan—a daughter of Uranus (“Sky”) and Gaia (“Earth”)—or an Oceanid—a daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. She was a lover or consort of Zeus and may have borne him a daughter, Aphrodite (this was the genealogy given by Homer and others, though another familiar tradition claimed that Aphrodite was ...

2023年3月11日 · Atlas was a Greek Titan famed for his prodigious strength and endurance, condemned to shoulder the heavens for eternity. He once passed the burden of holding up the world to the hero Hercules, but was tricked into taking it back.