Iapetus married his niece Clymene, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, while Crius married his half-sister Eurybia, the daughter of Gaia and Pontus. The other two Titan brothers married outside their immediate family. Eight of the Titan brothers and sisters married each other: Oceanus and Tethys, Coeus and Phoebe, Hyperion and Theia, and Cronus and Rhea. Hesiod's genealogy Īccording to Hesiod, the Titan offspring of Uranus and Gaia were Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus. As a result of this war, the vanquished Titans were banished from the upper world and held imprisoned under guard in Tartarus, although apparently some Titans were allowed to remain free.Ĭronus armed with sickle image derived from a carved gem ( Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison, Galerie mythologique, 1811). They were overthrown as part of the Greek succession myth, which tells how Cronus seized power from his father Uranus and ruled the cosmos with his fellow Titans before being in turn defeated and replaced as the ruling pantheon of gods by Zeus and the Olympians in a ten-year war called 'the Titanomachy' ( ἡ Τῑτᾱνομᾰχῐ́ᾱ The Titans were the former gods: the generation of gods preceding the Olympians. Certain descendants of the Titans, such as Prometheus, Helios, and Leto, are sometimes also called Titans. Cronus mated with his older sister Rhea, who then bore the first generation of Olympians: the six siblings Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, they were the twelve children of the primordial parents Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), with six male Titans- Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus-and six female Titans, called the Titanides or 'Titanesses' ( αἱ Τῑτᾱνῐ́δες, hai Tītānídes)- Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys.

In Greek mythology, the Titans ( Ancient Greek: οἱ Τῑτᾶνες, hoi Tītãnes, singular: ὁ Τῑτᾱ́ν, -ήν, ho Tītãn) were the pre-Olympian gods.

Titan helios