Titan, in Greek religion and mythology, one
of 12 primeval deities. The female Titan is also called Titaness. The
Titans—six sons and six daughters—were the children of Uranus and Gaea.
They were Kronos, Iapetus, Hyperion, Oceanus, Coeus, Creus, Theia, Rhea,
Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Themis. The name Titan was sometimes
applied also to their descendants, such as Prometheus, Atlas, Hecate,
Selene, and Helios. The Titans, led by Kronos, deposed their father and
ruled the universe. They were in turn overthrown by the Olympians, led
by Zeus, in the battle called the Titanomachy. Zeus freed from Tartarus
the Cyclopes and the hundred-handed giants, the Hecatoncheires, to aid
him in the war. The Cyclopes forged Hades' helmet of darkness,
Poseidon's trident, and Zeus' thunderbolts. With these weapons Zeus and
his brothers were able to defeat the Titans. After the struggle Zeus
sent Kronos to rule the Isle of the Blessed and condemned Atlas to bear
the sky on his shoulders. Prometheus (and, in some myths, Oceanus and
Themis), because he sided with Zeus, was allowed to remain on Olympus,
but all the other Titans were condemned to Tartarus.
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