concept

Titanomachy

Myth & story

The Hellenic war of the Olympians against the Titans. Not gigantomachy as the giants’ war, and not theogony as a text dump.

Hellenic religion

  • Titanomachy appears in Hellenic religion.

    Hesiod’s Theogony narrates the ten-year war of Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans, ending in Tartarus confinement. A named Hellenic Titanomachy episode in that poem, not gigantomachy as the giants’ war and not theogony as the text dump alone.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

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  • Keraunos is used in Titanomachy.

    Hesiod’s Theogony has Zeus hurl the Cyclopes’ keraunos in the war that casts the Titans into Tartarus. A named thunderbolt used in that Titanomachy, not Iliad battlefield use already walked and not lightning as weather speech alone.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

    used in · sourced · documented

  • Flame is used in Titanomachy.

    Hesiod’s Theogony seats burning flame among Zeus’s sky-fire in the war on the Titans. A named flame used in that Titanomachy, not flame appears_in as bare attestation alone and not keraunos as the finished bolt.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

    used in · sourced · documented

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