Titan

"«He who toils, strives», i.e. Titan, is the title we reserve for Cronus, his eleven sons and a good part of their progeny. Uranus meant it as an insult, but for one reason or another the name has echoed from age to age with an accent of grandeur. Even today no one would feel insulted if they called him a Titan. (Stephen Fry)"

"You will have plenty of time to act, unleash the Titans, your monstrous gang! (Hercules)"

"Kratos saw before him the last ancient rulers of the Earth, the mighty Titans. Defeated by the Gods and chained in the Abyss of Tartarus, they suffered an unjust punishment. Such was their torment that everyone knew how vehemently these immortal beings hated the Olympian deities. (God of War: Chains of Olympus)"

"The oldest stories in the world are written in the stars. Stories of a previous age of men and gods whose land was ruled by the Titans. The Titans were powerful, but their kingdom fell at the hands of the sons they had fathered: Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. (Clash of the Titans)"

"I happened to see a titan darning his socks. It was his first titanic effort. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)"

"Hansen, p. 302; Grimal, p. 457 s.v. Titans; Tripp, p. 579 s.v. Titans; Rose, p. 1079 s.v. Titan; Smith, s.v. Titan 1.."

"Hesiod, Theogony 133–138."

"Hesiod, Theogony 337–370."

"Hesiod, Theogony 404–409."

"Hesiod, Theogony 375–377."

"Hesiod, Theogony 371–374."

"Hesiod, Theogony 507–511."

"Hesiod, Theogony 453–458."

"Hesiod, Theogony 901–906, although at Theogony 217 the Moirai are said to be the daughters of Nyx (Night)."

"Hesiod, Theogony 915–920."

"Parada, p. 179 s.v. TITANS; Smith, s.v. Titan 2.; Rose, p. 143 s.v. Atlas, p. 597 s.v. Leto, p. 883 s.v. Prometheus; Tripp, p. 120 s.v. Atlas, p. 266 s.v. Helius, p. 499 s.v. Prometheus."

"Hesiod, Theogony 132–138, 337–411, 453–520, 901–906, 915–920; Caldwell, pp. 8–11, tables 11–14."

"One of the Oceanid daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, at Hesiod, Theogony 351. However, according to Apollodorus, 1.2.3, a different Oceanid, Asia was the mother, by Iapetus, of Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus."

"Although usually, as here, the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, in the Homeric Hymn to [[Hermes]{ (4), 99–100, Selene is instead made the daughter of Pallas the son of Megamedes."

"According to Plato, Critias, 113d–114a, Atlas was the son of Poseidon and the mortal Cleito."

"In Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 18, 211, 873 (Sommerstein, pp. 444–445 n. 2, 446–447 n. 24, 538–539 n. 113) Prometheus is made to be the son of Themis."

"Although, at Hesiod, Theogony 217, the Moirai are said to be the daughters of Nyx (Night)."

"Fowler C.E.2013, pp. 8, 11; Hard, pp. 36–37, p. 40; West C.E.1997, p. 147; Gantz, p. 11; Burkert 1995, pp. 91–92; West C.E.1983, pp. 119–120. According to Epimenides (see Fowler C.E.2013, pp. 7–8), the first two beings, Night and Aer, produced Tartarus, who in turn produced two Titans (possibly Oceanus and Tethys) from whom came the world egg."

"Homer, Iliad 14.201, 302 [= 201], 245. According to West C.E.1997, p. 147, these lines suggests a myth in which Oceanus and Tethys are the "first parents of the whole race of gods." And, although Gantz, p. 11, points out that, "mother" may simply refer to the fact that Tethys was Hera's foster mother for a time, as Hera tells us in the lines immediately following, while the reference to Oceanus as "the genesis of gods" might be a "formulaic epithet" referring to the innumerable rivers and springs who were the sons of Oceanus (compare with Iliad 21.195–197), Hypnos' description of Oceanus as "genesis for all" is hard to understand as meaning other than that, for Homer, Oceanus was the father of the Titans."

"Gantz, pp. 11–12, 743; West C.E.1983, pp. 117–118; Fowler 2013, p. 11; Plato, Timaeus 40d–e."

"West C.E.1983, pp. 118–120; Fowler 2013, p. 11; Plato, Cratylus 402b [= Orphic fr. 15 Kern]."

"Apollodorus, 1.1.3, 1.3.1. Dione is also the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus in the Iliad, 5.370, 3.374; but in the Theogony, 191–200, Aphrodite was born from the foam which formed around Uranus' severed genitals when Cronus threw them into the sea."

"Gantz, p. 743."

"Bremmer, p. 5, calls Hyginus' genealogy "a strange hodgepodge of Greek and Roman cosmogonies and early genealogies"."

"Hyginus, Fabulae Theogony 3."

"Pausanias, 8.37.5."

"Hansen, p. 302: "As a group the Titans are the older gods, the former gods, in contrast to the Oympians, who are the younger and present gods"."

"West C.E.2007, p. 162; Hard, p. 35; West C.E.1997, pp. 111, 298; Hesiod, Theogony 424, 486. As noted by Woodard, p. 154 n. 44, Theogony 486: Οὐρανίδῃ μέγ’ ἄνακτι, θεῶν προτέρων βασιλῆι, which some interpret as meaning Cronus "former king of the gods" (e.g. Evelyn-White), others interpret as meaning Cronus "king of the former gods" (e.g. Most, pp. 40, 41; Caldwell, p. 56; West C.E.1988, p. 17), for an argument against "former king" see West C.E.1966, p. 301 on line 486 θεῶν προτέρων."

"Hard, p. 35: "The essential point is that the Titans [are] the former ruling gods who were banished from the upper world when the present devine order was established."; West C.E.1983, p. 164: "The Titans are by definition the banished gods, the gods who have gone out of the world"; West C.E.1966, p. 200 on line 133."

"Gantz, pp. 45–46; West 1966, p. 200 on line 133; Hesiod, Theogony 729 ff., 807–814; Homer, Iliad 8.478–481, 14.274, 14.278–279; 15.225; Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound 221."

"Woodard, pp. 96–97; West 1966, p. 201."

"Woodard, p. 97; Hesiod, Theogony 697."

"Gantz, p. 46; Homeric Hymn to Apollo (3) 334–339."

"Athanassakis and Wolkow, p. 140; Burkert C.E.1985, p. 200, which gives the Titans as an example of "chthonic gods"; Homer, Iliad 14.270–279."

"Woodard, p. 92; Hard, pp. 34–35; Burkert C.E.1995, p. 94; Caldwell, p. 36 on lines 133-137; West C.E.1966, p. 200."

"West C.E.1966 p. 36, which, concerning Hesiod's list of names, says: "Its very heterogeneity betrays its lack of traditional foundation. Rhea, Zeus' mother, must be married to Kronos, Zeus' father. Hyperion, as father of Helios, must be put back to that generation; so must ancient and venerable personages as Oceanus and Tethys, Themis and Mnemosyne. By the addition of four more colourless names (Koios, Kreios, Theia, and Phoibe), the list is made up to a complement of six males and six females";cf. West C.E.1966, p. 200 on line 133."

"Hard, p. 34."

"Hard, p. 35; West C.E.1966 pp. 200–201 on line 133."

"Caldwell, p. 36 on lines 133-137."

"West C.E.1966 pp. 36, 157–158 on line 18."

"Hard, pp. 65–69; West C.E.1966, pp. 18–19."

"For a detailed account of Titanomachy and Zeus' rise to power see Gantz, pp. 44–56."

"Hesiod, Theogony 132–153."

"Hesiod, Theogony 154–155. Exactly which of these eighteen children Hesiod meant that Uranus hated is not entirely clear, all eighteen, or perhaps just the Cyclopes and the Hundred-Handers. Hard, p. 67; West C.E.1988, p. 7, and Caldwell, p. 37 on lines 154–160, make it all eighteen; while Gantz, p. 10, says "likely all eighteen"; and Most, p. 15 n. 8, says "apparently only the ... Cyclopes and Hundred-Handers are meant" and not the twelve Titans. See also West C.E.1966, p. 206 on lines 139–53, p. 213 line 154 γὰρ. Why Uranus hated his children is also not clear. Gantz, p. 10 says: "The reason for [Uranus'] hatred may be [his children's] horrible appearance, though Hesiod does not quite say this"; while Hard, p. 67 says: "Although Hesiod is vague about the cause of his hatred, it would seem that he took a dislike to them because they were terrible to behold". However, West C.E.1966, p. 213 on line 155, says that Uranus hated his children because of their "fearsome nature"."

"I fueled his desire to free his brothers and sisters from Kronos, but my foolish act of mercy would have doomed the Titans forever. Because by saving Zeus we allowed him to return to us thirsty for revenge. He betrayed all the Titans to punish the sins of just one. The sins of his father, Cronos. (Gaia, God of War II)"