titans

"Homeric Hymn to Apollo (3) 93."

"Homeric Hymn to Demeter (2) 441–444."

"Bacchylides, fr. 42 Campbell, pp. 294, 295."

"Gantz, p. 46; Burkert C.E.1985, p. 221; West C.E.1966, p. 358."

"Gantz, pp. 46–48."

"Pindar, Pythian 4.289–291."

"Gantz, p. 47; West C.E.1978, p. 195 on line 173a."

"Pindar, Olympian 2.69–77."

"Gantz, pp. 46–47; West C.E.1988, p. 76, note to line 173; West 1978, pp. 194–196, on lines 173a–e."

"Beckman, pp. 155–156, 162 fig. 7.7."

"Rutherford, pp. 51–52; West C.E.2007, p. 162; West C.E.1997, p. 299; Archi, pp. 114–115."

"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. Although the Titan's mythology seems certainly to have been imported, whether the Titans were originally a group of gods native to Mycenean Greece, upon whom this borrowed mythology was simply overlaid is unknown. According to West C.E.1966, p. 200: "it is probable that the Titans were taken over from the Orient as part of the Succession Myth, or else that they were gods native to Mycenean Greece but similar enough to the ‘older gods’ of the Near East to be identified with them"; while according to Hard, p. 35: "There may have been an early group of native gods of that name who were identified with the former gods of the imported myth; or else the name Titan was simply a title that was applied by the Greeks to gods of eastern origin. There is no way of telling which alternative is true, and it makes no practical difference in any case, since we know nothing whatever of the original nature of the Titans if they had once enjoyed a separate existence in Greece."."

"For detailed discussions of the parallels of the Greek succession myth in Near East mythology, see Woodard, pp. 92–103; West C.E.1997, pp. 276–333; West C.E.1966, pp. 19–31."

"West C.E.1997, p. 278; West C.E.1966, p. 20."

"Woodard, pp. 92–98; West C.E.1997, pp. 278–280; West C.E.1966, pp. 20–21; Burkert 1985, p. 127."

"West C.E.2007, p. 162; West 1997, p. 298; Archi, p. 114."

"Woodard, p. 99; West C.E.1983, p. 102."

"West C.E.1997, p. 299; Burkert C.E.1995, p. 94, with p. 203 n. 24."

"Nilsson, p. 202 calls it "the cardinal myth of Orphism"; Guthrie, p. 107, describes the myth as "the central point of Orphic story", Linforth, p. 307 says it is "commonly regarded as essentially and peculiarly Orphic and the very core of the Orphic religion", and Parker C.E.2002, p. 495, writes that "it has been seen as the Orphic 'arch-myth'."

"West C.E.1983, pp. 73–74, provides a detailed reconstruction with numerous cites to ancient sources, with a summary on p. 140. For other summaries see Morford, p. 311; Hard, p. 35; March, s.v. Zagreus, p. 788; Grimal, s.v. Zagreus, p. 456; Burkert 1985, pp. 297–298; Guthrie, p. 82; also see Ogden, p. 80. For a detailed examination of many of the ancient sources pertaining to this myth see Linforth, pp. 307–364. The most extensive account in ancient sources is found in Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.562–70, 6.155 ff., other principle sources include Diodorus Siculus, 3.62.6–8 (= Orphic fr. 301 Kern), 3.64.1–2, 4.4.1–2, 5.75.4 (= Orphic fr. 303 Kern); Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.110–114; Athenagoras of Athens, Legatio 20 Pratten (= Orphic fr. 58 Kern); Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2.15 pp. 36–39 Butterworth (= Orphic frs. 34, 35 Kern); Hyginus, Fabulae 155, 167; Suda s.v. Ζαγρεύς. See also Pausanias, 7.18.4, 8.37.5."

"West C.E.1983, p. 160 remarks that while "many sources speak of Dionysus' being 'rent apart' ... those who use more precise language say that he was cut up with a knife"."

"Linforth, pp. 307–308; Spineto, p. 34. For presentations of the myth which include the anthropogony, see Dodds, pp. 155–156; West C.E.1983, pp. 74–75, 140, 164–166; Guthrie, p. 83; Burkert C.E.1985, pp. 297–298; March, s.v. Zagreus, p. 788; Parker C.E.2002, pp. 495–496; Morford, p. 313."

"See Spineto pp. 37–39; Edmonds C.E.1999 Archived 2011-04-14 at the Wayback Machine, 2008, 2013 chapter 9; Bernabé 2002, 2003; Parker 2014."

"Plutarch, On the Eating of Flesh 1.996 C; Linforth, pp. 334 ff. Edmonds C.E.1999, pp. 44–47 Archived 2011-04-14 at the Wayback Machine."

"As a solid measure, time derives from the movement of sky. In it time begins, from it sprang, apparently, Cronos, who is Chronos (time). This Crono-Chronos is the creator of time. (Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius)"

"First a golden lineage of mortal men | made the immortals who have the Olympian abodes. | They were in the days of Kronos, when he reigned in heaven; | they lived like gods, without worries in their hearts, | far & safe from pain & misery, nor sad | old age came, but always equally strong in legs & arms, | at banquets they rejoiced, far from all evils; | they died as if overcome by sleep, & all sorts of goods | he was there for them; its fruit gave the fertile land | without work, rich & abundant, & they, happy, | in peace, they shared the fruits of their labor among infinite goods, | rich in herds, dear to the blessed gods. (Hesiod)"

"If Chronos had had to use someone as an example, perhaps he would have identified with Hamlet in his moments of maximum introspection, or with Jacques at the height of his morbid self-indulgence. The Seagull's Konstantin with a hint of Morrissey, & yet there was also something of Macbeth in him, and not a little of Hannibal Lecter, as we will see. Cronos was the first to discover that a brooding silence is often taken for a sign of strength, wisdom and power. He was the youngest of the twelve, and had always hated his father. The deep, penetrating poison of envy & resentment was shattering his mental health, yet he had managed to hide the intensity of his hatred from everyone except his devoted sister Rhea, the only member of the family with whom he felt enough in confidence to reveal his true nature. (Stephen Fry)"

"Τιτῆνες; according to Hesiod meaning "straining ones," the source of the word "titan", but this etymology is disputed."

"Notably, Lucian does not call Saturnalia by that name."

"Chronos is the god of hunting, | do you believe, Diana? | The arrow in my belly | it's a sundial. | I browse calendars with a single day, Monday, | I haven't solved the mystery. (Caparezza)"