
Theia – Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · Pindar: Theia appears at the beginning of Isthmian Ode 5 (possibly 478 BCE). Roman. Catullus: There is an allusive mention of Theia in Ode 66 (at line 44). Mythological Handbooks (Greek and Roman) Apollodorus: The Library (1st century BCE or first few centuries CE) mentions the mythology and genealogy of Theia.
Hyperion – Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · Hyperion has appeared in many popular representations of Greek mythology. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, he inspired works by Johann Hölderlin and John Keats. In the video game God of War: Chains of Olympus (2008), Hyperion is one of several Titans chained up in Tartarus.
Selene – Mythopedia
2022年12月7日 · Selene was rarely worshipped, at least in earlier periods of ancient Greek history. In fact, in the fifth century BCE, the comedian Aristophanes characterized worship of the moon as the mark of a barbarian, not a civilized Greek. But the Greek cult of Selene grew more and more prevalent towards the end of the Hellenistic period (323–31 BCE).
Greek Titans - Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · Though they were sometimes represented as cruel in Greek mythology, the period during which the Titans ruled was nonetheless regarded as a Golden Age. Unlike the Olympians, however, the Titans were almost never worshiped in ancient Greece (an exception is Rhea, the mother of Zeus and the Olympians, who was sometimes worshiped as “Mother of ...
Eos - Mythopedia
2022年12月9日 · Eos, daughter of Hyperion and Theia, was the goddess of the dawn; she rode her chariot across the sky at the beginning of each day, dispersing the night. Eos took many mortal lovers, including the handsome prince Tithonus, whom she inadvertently doomed to a …
Phoebe - Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · Mythology. Like many Titans, Phoebe seldom appeared in Greek texts. Her role in the Titanomachy and its aftermath, for example, is unsung and unknown. Hesiod’s Theogony, the most complete source for Greek myths on the origins of the cosmos, mentions her only twice. She first appears in a list of the children of Gaia and Uranus; according to ...
Tethys - Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. 2 vols. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Smith, William. “Tethys.” In A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Spottiswoode and Company, 1873. Perseus Digital Library. Accessed May 2, 2021.
Coeus – Mythopedia
2023年3月10日 · Mythology. As with many secondary Titans, Coeus is rarely mentioned in Greek texts. In Hesiod’s Theogony, for example, he is named only twice: once as a child of Gaia and Uranus, and again as Phoebe’s consort and the father of …
Rhea - Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · By the fourth century BCE (if not earlier), Rhea was widely identified with the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele. Indeed, in Greek literature and cult, the names Rhea and Cybele were often used interchangeably. The strange mythology of Cybele can thus be added to the familiar early myths of the Titan Rhea. Statuette of Cybele (ca. 300 BCE).
Titans – Mythopedia
2023年3月13日 · For example, the three children of Hyperion and Theia—Eos, Helios, and Selene—became important celestial gods: Eos became the embodiment of the dawn, Helios of the sun, and Selene of the moon. These gods, along with many of their descendants, made up the heavenly realm. The sons of the Titan Iapetus were also important in Greek mythology.