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Titans

deity earth Greek corroborated · 10

The Titans are described as the earlier generation of gods in Greek mythology. Zeus battled against them after reaching adulthood, using the skin of Amalthea's goat as a weapon in this conflict.

↻ synthesized from 10 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
The Titans are referenced as the earlier generation of gods against whom Zeus battled, attested from archaic Greek sources.

Relationships

co occurs with
Melisseus, Ereshkigal, galla, Muses, Orpheus, Chronos, Erebus, Ouranos, Chaos, Aether, Semele, Nyx, Protogonos, Zagreus, Atlas, Astraeus, Ephialtes, Iapetus, Coeus, Otus, Aloadae, Aegaeon, Amalthea, Kouretes, Cronus, Enki, Inanna, Rhea, Charites, Apollo, Athena, Ares, Hermes, Aphrodite, Poseidon, Cyclops, Pontus, Terra, Persephone, Phanes, Artemis (Diana), Typhon, Tartarus
enemy of
Olympian gods, Zeus, Dionysus, Olympians, Iris, giant, Dionysus Zagreus, Osiris, Isis, Kraken, Dahak, Old Gods, Hundred-Handers
parent of
Leto, Olympians
allied with
Kratos, Arke, Hera, Hades
has aspect
Gaia, Kronos, Crius, Hyperion, Theia, Oceanus, Helios
child of
Uranus, Gaia
served by
Arke

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Mentioned by

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Sources

wikipedia (9)
  1. Amalthea (mythology)
  2. Dying-and-rising god
  3. List of Greek deities
  4. Theomachy
  5. Gaia
  6. Orphism
  7. Zagreus
  8. Titans in popular culture
  9. Giants (Greek mythology)
encyclopedia (1)
  1. Ablution (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“seemingly alludes to Zeus's war with the Titans”

#8971 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“In Greek mythology, Dionysus, the son of Zeus, was a horned child who was torn to pieces by Titans who lured him with toys, then boiled and ate him. Zeus then destroyed the Titans by thunderbolt as a result of their action against Dionysus and from the ashes humans were formed.”

#12072 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Groups or societies of deities could be purely mythological in importance, such as the Titans”

#26257 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“in which the elder Olympian Gods fought against the preceding generation, the Titans. The war lasted ten years and resulted in the victory of the Olympians and their dominion over the world.”

#26358 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“She is the mother of Uranus (Sky), with whom she conceived the Titans (themselves parents of many of the Olympian gods), the Cyclopes, and the Giants, as well as of Pontus (Sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra.”

#28351 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001