Oceanus (Oceanos)
Son of Gaea (Gaia) and Uranus (Ouranos). He is the oldest of the Titans. Husband of Tethys and father of the Oceanides, Naiades, and the river gods. He was the personification of the never-ending stream that circles the earth. In the war between the Titans and the Olympians he protected both Hera and Rhea and, therefore, was not banished to Tartarus with the rest of the Titans.

Coeus
Son of Gaea and Uranus. Father of Leto by Phoebe and, probably, father of Asteria by her also.

Hyperion
Another son of Gaea and Uranus. Brother and husband to Theia; father of Helios (the sun), Eos (the dawn), and Selene (the moon), and of Hesperus. He has the reputation of being exceedingly handsome ("radiant", "splendor" are adjectives used in describing him), and was sometimes confused with Apollo by some worshippers.

Crius
Married to his sister Eurybia. Father of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses.

Iapetus
Another son of Gaea and Uranus. Husband to Clymene. Father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.

Cronus (Cronos, Kronos) ...Roman Saturn
Another son of Gaea and Uranus. Brother and husband to Rhea. He is the youngest of the Titans. Became the leader of the Titans after overthrowing, and castrating, his father with a sickle. He swallowed his own children by his sister Rhea.
By Rhea he begot the Olympian gods/goddesses, who in turn overthrew him and the rest of the Titans, whom they then banished to Tartarus.  Cronus managed to escape to Italy, where he ruled as Saturn. The period of his rule was said to be a golden age on earth, honored by the Saturnalia feast. He may also be the father of Chiron by Philyra and of Picus.
Kronos is an ambiguous figure. The Titans in general were thought of as primitive beings and Hesiod
describes Kronos as 'most terrible' (Theogony, line 138) a judgement borne out by his brutal treatment of Ouranos . But Kronos' rule was also thought of as a happier time than the age of Zeus and Hesiod places the Golden Age in the time of Kronos.

In Ancient Greece Kronos was celebrated at yearly festivals during which the normal social order was overturned with masters inviting slaves to dinner.

The Roman equivalent to these festivals, the Saturnalia or Brumalia, was celebrated in December and was the forerunner of our Christmas festivities.
 

Theia
One of the Titanides, the collective name for the daughters of Gaea and Uranus. She is the mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene. Her attributes are the Sun and the Day.

Rhea

One of the Titans, daughter of Gaia and Kronos she was mother of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon
and Zeus. With the help of Gaia and Ouranos she hid Zeus from Kronos and gave Kronos a stone to
swallow in his place.
Rhea is sometimes identified with the Eastern goddess Kybele, as in Euripides' Bacchae, and with the
mysterious 'Mother of the Gods'.

(Cybele was the goddess of nature and fertility. Because Cybele presided over mountains and fortresses, her crown was in the form of a city wall. The cult of Cybele was directed by eunuch priests called Corybantes, who led the faithful in orgiastic rites accompanied by wild cries and the frenzied music of flutes, drums, and cymbals. Her annual spring festival celebrated the death and resurrection of her beloved Attis, a vegetation god. Her Greek mythology counterpart was Rhea.)
 
 

Mnemosyne
One of the Titanides.Her mother was Gaea and her father Uranus (the Sky). She is Mother of the Muses; She slept with Zeus for nine nights and gave birth to the nine Muses. Her attributes are Memory and Intelligence.
 
 

Phoebe
the daughter of  Gaea and Uranus. Mother of Asteria and Leto by her brother Coeus. Her attributes are the Moon and the Night. Her name means "the shining one".
Phoebe is another Moon Goddess, though she is not a part of the Triple Goddess. She is often confused with Artemis.
 

Tethys
The Titaness Tethys was the wife of her brother Oceanus and by him the mother of the 3000 daughters (Oceanids ~ Water Nymphs), and 3000 sons (the Rivers);  Metis, Tyche, and Styx. Her attribute is Water . She was a Goddess of the Ocean, but eventually ceded to Doris, who ceded to Amphitrite. Tethys was the Godmother of Rhea, and raised her during the civil war between the Gods and the Titans.

Themis
One of the Titanides. Mother, by Zeus, of the three Fates and the Seasons, the Horae, Moirae, Hesperides, and Astraea. The Goddess of Divine Justice and Law, Themis was the constant companion of the god Zeus and sat beside him on Olympus. In ancient art she is represented holding aloft a pair of scales on which she weighs the claims of opposing parties. Her attributes are Order, Justice, and Knowledge.
 
 

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PROMETHEUS
The wisest of the Titans. His name means "forethought". A benefactor to mankind, whom he shaped out of mud (Athena is said to have breathed life into them.) He supplied fire to mankind in defiance of Zeus, who punished him by having him chained to a mountain where an eagle fed upon his liver daily (it regrew during the night).

Son of the Titan Iapetos (and a nymph, Klymene), brother of Atlas and Epimetheus. His name means
'foresight' that of Epimetheus 'aftersight'. He is closely connected with humans, but this connection takes different forms in different authors. Hesiod's Theogony tells how he tricked Zeus into accepting the poorer portion of the meat at the 'settlement between gods and men' at Mykone, leaving the better portion of the sacrifice for the human participants. When Zeus hid fire in exchange, Prometheus stole it back. The gods' response was to create woman. Hesiod's Works and Days gives a slightly different version of the events leading to the creation of the first woman.

The story contains some potent themes. In his opposition to Zeus, Prometheus is another of the threats to his supreme authority which must be removed. The attempt to trick Zeus at a feast or sacrifice is paralleled in the stories of Tantalus and Lykaon. Prometheus' function as the provider of civilisation (in the form of fire) is made clear in his speech in Aeschylus' play, Prometheus Bound in which he tells how he taught men various arts.
Hesiod does not explain the origin of men, but in other sources Prometheus is responsible for their creation from dust or earth
 
 
 
 
 

Epimetheus
Maybe the dumbest of the Titans. His name means "afterthought". He was given the job, by Prometheus, to dispense differing qualities to the newly-created men and beasts. He started with the animals, and gave them the sterling qualities of swiftness, courage, cunning, etc. and when it came time for him to give some qualities to men, he found he had nothing left to give. Prometheus came to the rescue of men once again and bestowed on them upright posture (a la the gods), which enabled them to survive and prosper.
 

Atlas
The son of Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene. Brother of Menoetius, Prometheus and Epimetheus. His name means "he who carries", because the Greeks believed his punishment for waging war against Zeus was to carry the vault of the heavens upon his shoulders. He is prominently involved in Heracles' labor to obtain the golden apples of the Hesperides. Atlas offered to get them for Heracles if he would hold up the sky while Atlas retrieved them. When he returned he told Heracles he would deliver them as Heracles was doing such a great job holdingup the sky. Heracles agreed, but then asked Atlas to hold up the sky a second so he, Heracles, could adjust the position on his shoulders and make it more comfortable. When Atlas did so, Heracles left with the apples, thus tricking Atlas into resuming his punishment.
By his wife Pleione (daughter of Oceanus) he had seven children. A Titan he fought against the gods in the battle between gods and Titans; the victorious Zeus condemned him to hold up the sky forever.
 

Leto
She was the daughter of the Titans Phoebus and Coeus, that makes her a sister of Asteria (the mother of Hecate). She was the mother of the twins Artemis and Apollo.
Leto was tormented by the jealous Hera, who found out about her affair with Zeus. Hera commanded that no land grant sanctuary to Leto for the purpose of childbirth. Poseidon took pity on the wandering mother-to-be, and anchored a floating mass of rocks to the bottom of the sea with a gigantic column. Here Leto suffered birth-pains for nine days and nine nights because Hera delayed the arrival of
Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, before giving birth to the twins.

Menoetius
He is the first slain by Zeus with a thunderbolt provided by the Cyclopes, in the war between the Titans and the Olympians.

Dione
According to the Iliad she is the mother of Aphrodite, by Zeus (not as popular a myth as Aphrodite being born of "the foam of the sea"). The daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.
*But it also says she is the daughter  of Epimetheus, who was the son of the Titan Japet.  She was believed by some to be an ancient Earth Goddess, or the Goddess of the Oak. In other cases it is said that she is the female version of Zeus.
 

Doris
Doris was best known for being the mother of all of the Nereids. She was the daughter of Tethys and Oceanus, both Titans.

Eurynome
Eurynome is a hard one. By some accounts she was a Titaness married to Ophion, yet by others she was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, one of the Oceanids. I think I go with the former. She was also the mother of the Graces.
 
 

Asteria
Daughter of Phoebe and Coeus. Leto's sister. Said to be the mother of Hecate by Perses. Asteria was pursued by Zeus, and inorder to escape his amorous advances, changed herself into a quail and plunged into the sea, where she became a floating island (Delos).
 

Maia
She was a Pleiade, daughter of Atlas and Pleione. Gave birth to Hermes, fathered by Zeus and raised him in a cave, far away from Hera's jealous eyes.
In Greek mythology she was one of the seven daughters of Atlas (Maia, Electra, Celaeno, Taygeta, Merope, Alcyone, and Sterope), who were metamorphosed into stars.
 
 

Electra
Daughter of Atlas. According to some mythographers, mother of Harmonia, by Zeus. Also the mother of the Harpies, and Iris, by Thaumas, a son of Gaea and Pontus.

Taygete
Another daughter of Atlas. In some myths she escapes Zeus' advances by being turned into a hind by Artemis, who later restores her to her natural form. In other myths she succumbs to Zeus and gives birth to Lacedaemon.

Metis
Metis was another Titaness. She was the Goddess of Prudence and Goddess of wisdom. A daughter of Oceanus. It was she who gave Cronus the doctored potion that made him vomit up the children (the Olympian gods) that he had swallowed. She became the first wife of Zeus, who was warned by Gaea that any child Metis bore him would overthrow him. Just before she was to give birth (to Athena) she, and the unborn child, were swallowed by Zeus. Metis ends up living inside Zeus' head and giving him advice from there.
 

Tyche
Tyche was the Goddess of Fame and Fortune. It was in her temple that the first dice was reportedly made. She was another daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She is often depicted with a wheel because she has such a very fickle nature.
 

Helios
The sun god. He traveled the sky in a chariot pulled by fire-breathing horses, named Phaethon, Lampon, Chronus, Aethon, Bronte, Astrope, Pyroeis, Phlegon, and Eous. Helios was the father of Phaethon, the youth who was killed trying to fly his father's chariot across the sky. Helios also fathered Aeëtes, Achelous, Augeus, Pasiphae, Phaetusa, Lampetia, Perses, the Heliads (seven sons from the nymph Rhode, and seven daughters from Clymene, who was also the mother of the unfortunate Phaethon), Electryone, and Circe. The gigantic statue (sculpted by Chares, it was said to be 30 yards high and ships under full sail could pass between its legs) of him in the harbor at Rhodes was considered one of the original Seven Wonders of the World. He was known to the Romans as Sol.

Selene (Mene)
The moon goddess. By Zeus she was the mother of three daughters, Pandia, Erse (the dew), and Nemea (some myths make her the mother of the Nemean Lion, also by Zeus). The best known myth about Selene is the one about her affair with Endymion. There are two versions:
1. She consummates her love with Endymion and bears him fifty daughters.
2. She comes upon a sleeping Endymion and, enraptured, steals a kiss. She (or Endymion, himself) asks Zeus for immortality and eternal youth. This is granted, but with a twist; he must remain eternally asleep. Selene comes each night to gaze upon her love and to steal another kiss.

Eos
The goddess of the dawn. She was depicted as a winged goddess riding across the sky in her two horse chariot, just before sunrise, pulled by her horses "Shiner" and "Bright". She became the lover of many young men, including Tithonus, for whom she begged immortality for him from Zeus. She forgot to ask for eternal youth as well, and Tithonus grew ever-increasingly wrinkled and shriveled with age. Eventually she locked him in a room and there he stayed until the gods took pity and turned him into thecicada, an insect famous for its complaining sound. Eos, with the Titan Astreus, bore the winds, Boreas, Zephyrus, Eurus, and Notus. She was also the mother, by various lovers, of Memnon, Emathion, Phosphorus, and Hesperus. She earned the enmity of Aphrodite by having an affair with Ares. Aphrodite thereupon inspired Eos with love for many mortals; the aforementioned
Tithonus, Orion, Cleitus, Cephalus, etc. Eos was known to the Romans as Aurora.

Hesperus
The evening star. He was the father of Daedalion, Ceyx, and (some myths) the Hesperides.
 
 

 

 
 

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