| Mention Greek gods and people immediately think | | | | Titans). The Titans lost this war, and were |
| of Zeus and the like. Before these well-known | | | | imprisoned by the Olympic gods in Tartarus, the |
| gods came on the scene, however, there were | | | | lowest points of the underworld. The twelve |
| another group of Gods.There were many figures | | | | Titans were grouped in pairs, or couples; they |
| featured in the Greek mythological world, from | | | | included Oceanus and Tethys, Hyperion and Theia, |
| gods and goddesses to mythical fantasy | | | | Coeus and Phoebe, Cronus and Rhea and four |
| creatures. While the gods and goddesses | | | | separate gods: Mnemosyne, Themis, Crius and |
| themselves often got the most attention, it was | | | | Iapetus. The thirteenth Titan was Dione, who was |
| the mythical characters that really made the | | | | a double of Theia.It is said that Chronos was the |
| stories work. Without the interaction of the god | | | | most monstrous and cunning of the twelve, and |
| figures, mortals and these creatures, the stories | | | | when he was born to his mother Gaia, he formed |
| told would not have been fully fleshed. One of | | | | an intense hatred of his father. Uranus sensed |
| these groups of characters was the Titans, and | | | | this, and imprisoned his son in the bowels of the |
| their story is an interesting one.The Titans were a | | | | Earth. Once there, Chronos enlisted the help of |
| race of gods and goddesses that ruled Greece | | | | the Cyclopses and other creatures and escaped; |
| during the Golden Age. There were originally | | | | then he castrated his father Uranus and took the |
| twelve Titans, with a thirteenth Titan coming into | | | | beautiful Rhea for his bride. From this union, the |
| play after a literary appearance in the Bibliotheke. | | | | new generation of gods was born, including |
| The mother and father of the Titans were | | | | Zeus.The Titans played an important role in the |
| Uranus and Gaia, and Uranus was overthrown by | | | | creation myth of the gods and goddesses of |
| his son Cronus, who was the youngest of the | | | | Mount Olympus, and while they themselves did |
| group. Additionally, the Titans gave birth to more | | | | not mean much in the religious arena past the |
| Titans, including Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas | | | | Classical Age of Greece, the fact that they |
| and Menoetius; these were the sons of | | | | birthed the Mount Olympus deities made them an |
| Iapetus.The Titans preceded the twelve gods of | | | | important part of Greek culture.Richard Monk is |
| Mount Olympus, who were headed by Zeus and | | | | with - a site with facts about everything. |
| battled them in the Titanomachy (War of the | | | | |