The Titans Flashcards
Who were the first generation of 12 Titans
Males: Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, Cronus, Crius, and Iapetus
Females: Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia, Phoebe, Rhea and Themis.
Who were Hyperion’s three children
Eos (the dawn),
Helios (the Sun),
and Selene (the Moon)
Who were the daughters of Coeus and Pheobe
Leto (who with Zeus is the parent of Apollo and Artemis)
Asteria
Who are the children of Iapetus (with his wife Cylemene aka Asia)
Atlas
Prometheus
Epimetheus
Menoetius
Who is Doris
The daughter of Oceanus and Tethys,
an Oceanid
Wife of Nereus
Mother of the 50 Nereids, which including Thetis, mother of Achilles and Amphitrite (Poseiden’s wife)
Grandmother of Triton
Who are sons of Crius
Astraeus
Pallas
Perses
Who is Titan depicted in the Trevi Fountain
Oceanus (who sometimes is depicted with a fish or serpents lower body) - although not in the fountain
Who is the consort of Oceanus
His sister Tethys - and from their union came the ocean nymphs, also known as the 3000 Oceanids, and all the rivers, fountains and lakes of the world.
What was Oceanus’s role in the Titanomachy
He didn’t take sides, but instead withdrew from the conflict
Which Titan was known as Lord of the Light
Hyperion
Who is sometimes described as the wife of Hyperion
Theia
Who was the consort of Coeus
Phoebe
Which tighten was cast into Tartarus by Zeus, but freed by Demeter’s grief
Coeus
He is mostly known for his children not his own characteristics, but he was one of the Titans who was overthrown by Zeus and cast into Tartarus
He is known as the Titan of the North, wisdom and farsight. When he fled from Zeus after being freed from Tartarus he became the pole star Polaris
What is the family interest of Phoebe
Wife of Coeus
Mother of Leto
Grandmother of Apollo and Artemis
Who was the chief of the Titans
Cronus, God of Time
Known as Saturn to the Romans
Who did Cronus depose and how
His father Uranus (who hated his children), when he used a sythe to castrate his father
- from the foam from his testicles was born Aphrodite
Who was the consort of Cronus
Rhea
After Cronus swalled all his children, where did Rhea hide Zeus
In a cave on Mount Ida in Crete
Which Titaness was the personification of memory
Mnemosyne
She was mother of the nine muses with Zeus
Which Titaness was the god of good counsel
Themis (which means ‘divine law’)
She was known as one of the original Oracles of Delphi
Mother of the Horai with Zeus accoring to many traditions
As she was associated with divine law, her daughter Dike was associated with temporal (earthly) justice, and the last God to inhabit the earth with the mortals
Which Titan is known as “The Piercer”
Iapetus
- he was cast into Tartarus by Zeus
Who was the Roman equivalent of Helios
Sol Invictus
By what name are the children of Oceanus and Tethys known
The 3000 daughters, the Oceanids, each of which was a patroness of a particular spring, river, sea, pond, pasture, flower or cloud
included Doris
And 3000 sons, the Potamoi (river gods), although sometimes these are called Oceanids, sometimes not.
Who were the Naiads
Naiad comes from the ancient greek for “to flow”
they were a type of nymph that presided over fresh waters bodies, fountains, wells, springs, streams, etc - but they are separate from the river gods
Waterhouse liked to paint he Naiads
They are to fresh water what Oceanids are the Oceanic salt waters, and the Nerieds to the Mediterranean salt waters
Their ancestry is very disputed
