👑 Titans & Titanesses

The Titans: The Elder Gods of Greek Mythology

Welcome to the definitive guide to the Titans—the powerful elder gods who ruled the cosmos before the Olympians. These primordial deities represented the raw, untamed forces of nature and the foundational elements of creation.

The First Divine Dynasty: Born from Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky), the original twelve Titans established the first cosmic order. Cronus led them in overthrowing their father Uranus, establishing a golden age that would later be overthrown by Zeus and the Olympians in the Titanomachy.

Cosmic Personifications: Unlike the more human-like Olympians, Titans embodied fundamental aspects of reality: Oceanus represented the world-encircling river, Hyperion embodied heavenly light, Themis personified divine law, and Mnemosyne was memory itself.

Cultural Legacy: Though defeated, the Titans' influence persisted in Greek thought as symbols of primal power, the old order giving way to the new, and the eternal cycle of succession myths that shaped Greek understanding of authority and change.