Mythology
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The Titans
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Coeus | Titan of intelligence |
| Crius | one of the Titans in the list given in Hesiod's Theogony, a son of Uranus and Gaia. The least individualized among them, he was overthrown in the Titanomachy. |
| Cronus; also spelled Cronos or Kronos | was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans. His mother was Gaia, and his father was Uranus, whom Cronus envied. |
| Hyperion | Titan god of light |
| Iapetus | the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father (by an Oceanid named Clymene or Asia) of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus and Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race. |
| Mnemosyne | kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne |
| Oceanus | this Titan is often depicted as having the upper body of a muscular man with a long beard and horns, and the lower torso of a serpent. |
| Phoebe | one of the original Titans, one set of sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaia in Greek mythology. She was traditionally associated with the moon |
| Rhea | Titaness daughter of Uranus and of Gaia. She was sister to Cronus and mother to Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus. She was strongly associated with Cybele. In Roman mythology, she was Magna Mater deorum Idaea and identified with Ops. |
| Tethys | was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. |
| Theia | she was the mother of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the Dawn). According to the Homeric Hymn to Helios, Eryphaesa is listed as their mother. |
| Themis | among the six sons and six daughters - of whom Cronos was one - of Gaia and Ouranos, that is, of Earth with Sky. |
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