Greek Titans - Mythopedia
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.
Titans - Mythopedia
2023年3月13日 · Led by Cronus, the youngest Titan, they overthrew their father Uranus to become the chief powers of the cosmos. Originally, only the twelve anthropomorphic children of Uranus and Gaia were called Titans. Over time, however, different lists and groupings of Titans emerged; indeed, the very meaning of the term seems to have shifted.
Atlas - Mythopedia
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.
Helios - Mythopedia
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.
Hyperion – Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · Hyperion was a Greek Titan who, along with most of his siblings, fought for the right to rule the cosmos but lost to the Olympians. Rarely mentioned in myths, he is best known for fathering the gods of the sun, moon, and dawn.
Themis – Mythopedia
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.
Rhea - Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Rhea or Rheia)—and the one endorsed by Plato in Cratylus—claimed that “Rhea” was a feminine form of the ancient Greek verb rheō, meaning “flow,” “discharge,” or “stream.” Modern scholars have also suggested possible connections with the Greek words rheia or rhea (“easily”), era (“earth”), and oros (“mountain”).
Styx – Mythopedia
2023年2月7日 · Styx originated from a branch of the Titans who were friends to the Olympians. Her parents, Oceanus and Tethys, were both Titans themselves, but they chose to support Zeus and the Olympians rather than their Titan siblings during the Titanomachy, the war between the Olympians and Titans. Styx likewise was an ally of the Olympians.
Crius - Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · Etymology. The name “Crius” is the ancient Greek word for “ram” (krios).Scholars have suggested several possible etymologies for the name, including the Indo-European *kerh₂-s-(“horn"), the Germanic *kroi-no-(“reindeer”), and certain Balto-Slavic words meaning “curved” (the Lithuanian kredīvas or kraīvas, the Greek skolios, etc.).
Hyades – Mythopedia
2023年9月18日 · The Hyades, daughters of the Titan Atlas, were goddesses who were placed in the night sky as a cluster of stars. They were associated above all with the rainy season. It was said that they made into stars after dying of grief for their dead brother, or, alternatively, as a reward for nursing Dionysus.