Re: [tied] Titans

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From: Christopher Gwinn <sonno3@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Titans
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> > 2) The Titans are nor malign nor giants.
>
> But they are enemies of Zeus and family. Are you sure that they aren't
> giants? I don't see how the ocean god Okeanos and the sun god Hyperion
could
> be conceived as anything but gigantic deities.
>
It's a curious point: although Titans were generically foes of Olympian
Gods, only Iapetos's and Kreios's offspring had strong roles as enemies, and
gigantic traits. Okeanos's were the Oceanides, Olympians' lovers; Hyperion's
were astral deities; Koios's were Olympians' allies.