Titans · Atlas · Falsafa

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The Titans4 mentions

Theogony (Greek) · On the Nature of the Gods (Latin) · De Corona (Latin)

And beyond, away from all the gods, live the Titans, beyond gloomy Chaos.

theogony ¶

in the texts

TheogonyClassical · Greek

The elder generation of gods, expelled from heaven by Zeus and imprisoned beneath Tartarus with Cronos.

And beyond, away from all the gods, live the Titans, beyond gloomy Chaos.

theogony ¶

But when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven, huge Earth bore her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite.

theogony ¶

Hades trembled where he rules over the dead below, and the Titans under Tartarus who live with Cronos, because of the unending clamor and the fearful strife.

b 2 ¶

BirdsClassical · Greek

The elder generation of gods invoked by Pisthetaerus as a marker of antiquity that the birds' lineage is said to predate.

Your race is older than Saturn, the Titans and the Earth.

birds ¶

CloudsClassical · Greek

The primordial mythological beings sarcastically invoked by Phidippides to mock the strange company his father claims to have kept inside the school.

Did you learn these clever things by going in just now to the Titans?

clouds ¶

On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

Mythic race who warred against the gods, cited as an example of undignified mythology.

nor indeed, as the fables tell, were they without wars and battles — not only as in Homer, when different gods defended two opposing armies from different sides, but even when they waged their own proper wars, as with the Titans, as with the Giants.

book 2 ¶

ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

Mythological beings who dismember the infant Dionysus and are blasted by Zeus's thunderbolt.

And the Titans, who had torn him to pieces, set a cauldron upon a tripod, threw in the limbs of Dionysus, and first boiled them;

protrepticus ¶

OrationsImperial · Greek

Mythic race of divine enemies from whom men are said (falsely, per the farmer) to descend, explaining human suffering as punishment.

For from the gods, he said, is the race of men, not from Titans nor from Giants.

oration 30 ¶

for it was not, I think, devised for our pleasure, but has perhaps something marvellous in it—namely, that we men are all of the blood of the Titans.

oration 30 ¶

IliadClassical · Greek

Elder gods of the nether world invoked by Hera as witnesses to her oath.

She swore, and invoked all the gods of the nether world, who are called Titans, to witness.

chapter 14 ¶

PythianClassical · Greek

The elder generation of gods once imprisoned and later freed by Zeus.

But immortal Zeus freed the Titans;

chapter 4 ¶

De CoronaLate Antiquity · Latin

Mythological beings vanquished by Jupiter, after which Jupiter was crowned.

Diodorus, that Jupiter, after the Titans were vanquished, was honoured with this gift by the rest.

de corona ¶

Law in a Free State19th Century · English

Mythological beings invoked in a simile comparing artificial social engineering to the Titans' hopeless war against the gods.

If they are not, then we are fighting against nature as the Titans warred on the gods—in vain.

chapter 8 ¶