TITAN


Meaning of TITAN in English

n.

In Greek mythology , any of the children of Uranus and Gaea and their descendants.

There were 12 original Titans: the brothers Coeus, Crius, Cronus , Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus, and the sisters Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea , Tethys, Thea, and Themis. Encouraged by Gaea, the Titans rebelled against their father. Cronus deposed Uranus by castrating him, and became king himself. Cronus' son Zeus rebelled against his father, launching a struggle in which most of the Titans sided with Cronus. Zeus and his siblings finally won after 10 years, and Zeus imprisoned the Titans in a cavity below Tartarus .

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