Titans Titans In Greek mythology, Atlas was a member of a race of giant gods known as Titans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atlas (mythology)"
In Greek mythology, Coeus (also Koios) was the Titan of intelligence. Titans are the giant sons and daughters of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). ...more on Wikipedia about "Coeus"
In Greek mythology, Crius was one of the Titans, a son of Uranus and Gaia. He was overthrown in the Titanomachy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crius"
In Greek mythology, Cronus ( Ancient Greek Κρόνος—of obscure etymology, perhaps related to "horned"), pronounced "kroh'-nuhs", also called Cronos or Kronos, was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Uranus, the sky. He overthrew his father, Uranus, and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son, Zeus, and imprisoned in the depths of the underworld, Tartarus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cronus"
Eos ("dawn") was, in Greek mythology, the Titan goddess of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the Ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the sun. As the dawn goddess, she opened the gates of heaven (with "rosy fingers") so that Helios could ride his chariot across the sky every day. In Homer (Iliad viii.1; xxiv.695), her yellow robe is embroidered or woven with flowers (Odyssey vi:48 etc); rosy-fingered and with golden arms, she is pictured on Attic vases as a supernaturally beautiful woman, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird. Eos is the iconic original from which Christian angels were imagined, for no images were available from the Hebrew tradition, and the Persian angels were unknown in the West. The worship of the dawn as a goddess is inherited from Indo-European times; Eos is cognate to Latin Aurora and to Vedic Ushas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eos"
In Greek mythology, Epimetheus ("hindsight", literally "hind-thought") was the brother of Prometheus ("foresight", literally "fore-thought"), a pair of Titans who "acted as representatives of mankind" (Kerenyi 1951, p 207). They were the inseparable sons of Iapetus, who in other contexts was the father of Atlas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Epimetheus (mythology)"
In earlier Greek mythology, the sun was personified as a deity called Hêlios ( Greek for "the sun"), whom Homer equates with the sun titan Hyperion. Other sources say Helios is Hyperion's son by his sister Theia. Helios was seen driving a fiery chariot across the sky. He has two sisters, the moon goddess Selene and the dawn goddess Eos. Many believe that Apollo becomes the Olympian "sun god", but this idea is mostly based on speculation and assumption. The equivalent of Helios in Roman mythology is Sol. ...more on Wikipedia about "Helios"
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In later Greek literature Hyperion is always distinguished from Helios as a Titan, the son of Gaia 'Goddess Earth' and Uranus 'God Sky', and the father of Helios 'God Sun', Selene 'Goddess Moon' and Eos 'Goddess Dawn' by his sister Theia 'Goddess Sight' or, in the Homeric Hymn to Helios, Euryphaessa: ...more on Wikipedia about "Hyperion (mythology)"
In Greek mythology Iapetus, or Iapetos, was a Titan, 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. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iapetus (mythology)"
In Greek mythology, Metis ("wisdom" or "wise counsel") was a Titaness who was the first great spouse of Zeus, indeed his equal ( Hesiod, Theogony 896) and the mother of Athena. So, Athena was actually the daughter of wisdom. She was the goddess of wisdom and deep thought. ...more on Wikipedia about "Metis (mythology)"
Mnemosyne (Greek , IPA in RP and in General American) (sometimes confused with Mneme) was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. This titaness was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the Muses by Zeus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mnemosyne"
Oceanus or Okeanos refers to the ocean, which the Greeks and Romans regarded as a river circling the world. Strictly speaking, it was the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere (oikoumene) ** . In Greek mythology this world-ocean was personified as a Titan, a son of Uranus and Gaia. In ancient Greek beliefs 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. (Compare Typhon.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Oceanus"
Phoebe (pronunced "fee-bee") was one of the original Titans, one set of sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaia. Traditionally associated with the moon, she was the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis. By Coeus she mothered Leto and Asteria. She received control of the Oracle at Delphi from Themis, according to a minority of sources. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phoebe (mythology)"
In Greek mythology, Prometheus, or Prometheas ( Ancient Greek, Προμηθεύς, "forethought") is the Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from the gods in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use. ...more on Wikipedia about "Prometheus"
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Rhea (or Ria meaning "she who flows") was the 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. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rhea (mythology)"
In Greek mythology, Selene (Σελήνη, "moon") (the Roman moon goddess being Luna) was an ancient lunar deity, and the daughter of the Titans ...more on Wikipedia about "Selene"
In Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. She was mother of the chief rivers of the universe, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tethys (mythology)"
In Greek mythology, Theia (also written Thea or Thia), also called Euryphaessa ("wide-shining"), was a Titan. With her brother and husband Hyperion, 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. The name Theia alone, means simply "goddess," Theia Euryphaessa with overtones of brightness. ...more on Wikipedia about "Theia"
In Greek mythology, the Titans ( Greek Τιτάν, plural Τιτάνες) were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. The Titans originally numbered twelve and were associated with various concepts, such as the ocean, memory, sight, and natural law; they later gave birth to other Titans, such as Prometheus and Atlas. They were led by the youngest first-generation Titan, Cronus, who overthrew their father, Uranus ("sky"), at the urgings of their mother, Gaia ("earth"). The Titans were eventually overthrown by the Olympian gods, led by Zeus, in the Titanomachy ("War of the Titans"), and many of them were imprisoned in Tartarus, the depths of the underworld. ...more on Wikipedia about "Titan (mythology)"
Uranus is the Latinized form of Ouranos, Greek name of the sky. In Greek mythology Uranus is personified as the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. Ouranos and Gaia were ancestors of most of the Greek gods. ...more on Wikipedia about "Uranus (mythology)"
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