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Jun 1, 2024 · Uranus, in Greek mythology, the personification of heaven. According to Hesiod ’s Theogony, Gaea (Earth), emerging from primeval Chaos, produced Uranus, the Mountains, and the Sea. From Gaea’s subsequent union with Uranus were born the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hecatoncheires.
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2 days ago · She is the mother of Uranus (Sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents of many of the Olympian gods ), the Cyclopes, and the Giants, as well as of Pontus (Sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra. [6] Etymology.
3 days ago · About seven decades after its discovery, consensus was reached that the planet be named after the Greek god Uranus (Ouranos), one of the Greek primordial deities. As of 2024, it had been visited up close only once when in 1986 the Voyager 2 probe flew by the planet. [23]
3 days ago · The Hesiodic succession myth describes how Uranus, the original ruler of the cosmos, hid his offspring away inside Gaia, but was overthrown by his Titan son Cronus, who castrated Uranus, and how in turn, Cronus, who swallowed his children as they were born, was himself overthrown by his son Zeus, whose mother had given Cronus a stone ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Ancient Sources of Greek and Roman Gods. The great Greek epics, Hesiod's "Theogony" and Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," provide much of the basic information on the Greek gods and goddesses. The playwrights add to this and give more substance to the myths alluded to in the epics and other Greek poetry.
4 days ago · In Homer’s Iliad, for instance, Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and Dione (Il. 4.370 ff.), not of Uranus as in the Theogony; likewise, Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera (Il. 1.578, 14.338, Od. 8.312), while in the Theogony he is begotten by Hera alone, in “revenge” for Zeus’s begetting Athena (Th. 924–929); in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, the younger god imitates his father by ...
Jun 13, 2024 · Titan, in Greek mythology, any of the children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth) and their descendants. According to Hesiod’s Theogony, there were 12 original Titans: the brothers Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Cronus and the sisters Thea, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys.
