The Titans were gigantic, powerful, and primevalfrom the earliest times beings that loomed in the background of many Greek myths and tales. Children of Uranus (the sky) and Gaia (the earth), the Titans ruled the world before they were overthrown by the god Zeusin Greek mythology, king of the gods and husband of Hera (Roman god Jupiter) and his five brothers and sisters.

The Greek writer Hesiod(ca. 700 B.C.) Greek poet who wrote the Theogony listed six male Titans—Oceanus, Coeus, Cronus, Crius, Hyperion, and Iapetus—and six female Titanesses—Tethys, Themis, Phoebe, Mnemosyne, Theia, and Rhea. Some accounts add the brothers Prometheusin Greek mythology, Titan said to have created the human...