The Titans

The Titans is the elder gods who ruled the earth before the Olympians defeated them and send them to Tartarus. The male Titans known as the Titanes and the female Titans is known as Titanides. The parents of the Titans are Gaea or Gaia and Uranus. Gaia created Uranus and then Uranus becomes her husband. The first generations of the Titans are the parents and the aunts and uncles of the Olympian Gods and Goddesses. There are twelve children of Gaia and Uranus:

• Cronus (aka Saturn)
• Rhea (Cronus and Rhea were the parents of the Olympian gods and goddesses)
• Iapetus (father of Prometheus, Atlas, and Epimetheus)
• Oceanus (father of nymphs)
• Hyperion (father of sun-god, moon, dawn)
• Themis (Zeus' second consort, mother of the Hours, Fates)
• Thea (Hyperion's mate)
• Mnemosyne (mated with Zeus to produce the Muses)
• Phoebe (Coeus' mate)
• Coeus (father of Leto & Asteria)
• Tethys (Ocean's mate)
• Crius (father of Pallas, Astraeus, and Perses)

These first generations of the Titans are the parents of the Olympians. Beside the Olympians they also Titans also produce others offspring from mating with other Titans or other creatures. The second generations of the Titans are:

• Asteria
• Astraea (Dike)
• Astraeus
• Atlas
• Eos (Dawn)
• Eosphorus (or Hesperus)
• Epimetheus
• Helius
• Leto
• Menoetius
• Pallas
• Perses
• Prometheus
• Selene

The ruler of the Titans was Cronus after he defeated his father Uranus and he ruled until his child defeat him and the other Titans and send them to Tartaurus.