Mar 10, 2023 · Theia was a daughter of the primordial deities Gaia, who embodied the earth, and Uranus, who personified the heavens. Among her brothers and sisters were the other Titans— Coeus , Crius , Cronus , Hyperion , Iapetus , Oceanus , Mnemosyne , Phoebe , Tethys , Themis , and Rhea —as well as the Hecatoncheires and the Cyclopes , destructive ...

Dec 7, 2022 · Selene, daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, was the personification of the moon. Her brother Helios shone as the sun, while her sister Eos was the goddess of the dawn. Though Selene had many consorts, the most famous …

Mar 10, 2023 · And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helius (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven. Marble relief showing the sun god Helios with rays of sun as a crown (ca. 300 BCE).

Mar 10, 2023 · Cf. Plato, Timaeus 40e, where Theia seems to be counted as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. ↩; In other traditions, however, Hecate had different parents (and so was not necessarily Coeus’ granddaughter). ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 134. ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 405–9, translated by H. G. Evelyn-White. ↩

Dec 7, 2022 · Helios, son of Hyperion and Theia, was the personification of the sun and a god of the day. Crowned with rays of golden sunlight and riding his blazing chariot, Helios represented the sun’s daily journey across the sky.

Dec 9, 2022 · 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 terrible fate.

Mar 10, 2023 · She first appears in a list of the children of Gaia and Uranus; according to Hesiod, Gaia bore “deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.” Cronus, who would eventually overthrow Uranus, was the youngest of Phoebe’s siblings.

Mar 10, 2023 · The Titans were the first children of the primordial Greek deities Uranus and Gaia. Two of these Titans, Cronus and Rhea, became the parents of the original generation of Olympians, who overthrew the Titans, just as the Titans had overthrown Uranus before them.

Mar 10, 2023 · Themis was a Greek Titan most famous for embodying the concept of justice. Unlike the other Titans, she sided with the Olympians in their celestial war with her brethren. Today, her image survives as “Lady Justice,” wearing a chiton (a kind of tunic) and holding a set of balanced scales.

Mar 9, 2023 · Cf. also Plato, Timaeus 40e, where Theia seems to be counted as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. ↩; Hesiod, Theogony 1, 915; Apollodorus, Library 1.3.1; etc. There were different versions of the Muses’ parentage and names, but these alternatives were not as important or well known in antiquity. ↩