History Characters / ClassicalMythologyTitans

* DefectorFromDecadence: Among the Titans, the only one who abstained from attacking the gods. He then joined them in the new era.

* TheChampion : Hasn’t be called the champion of humanity for nothing.
** He tricked Zeus into accepting only bones and uneatable parts of animals as sacrifices, so humans can keep the meat and don’t starve.

** And of course he stole fire. According to Aechylus, he gave humanity art, science, and [[HopeBringer hope]].

* GodOfGood: He’s one of the very rare deities in Greek Mythology who never hurt anyone (''sans'' Zeus' pride). That, and he willingly sacrificed himself for mankind.

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* GodOfGood: Well, he's not exactly a God, but he's one of the very rare deities in Greek Mythology who never hurt anyone (''sans'' Zeus' pride). That, and he willingly sacrificed himself for mankind.

* HappilyMarried: He and his wife had around 6,000 children (3,000 sons, 3,000 daughters) together. They were a busy couple.
* HeroicNeutral: Oceanus never involved himself in things like the overthrowing of Ouranos or the Titanomachy. ''The Iliad'' claims that he and Tethys provided protection to Hera while the Titanomachy was raging, but didn't take part in the battle themselves. Thus he was one of the few Titans Zeus tolerated after ascending to the throne.
* LordOfTheOcean: The god of the ocean, which is a river. In later times, where the idea of a great earth-encircling river was abandoned, Oceanus became more and more associated with the sea, mostly the one beyond the Gibraltar (the Atlantic) while Poseidon gets the Mediterranean.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Eleven or twelve Titans, plus three Hecatoncheires, three Cyclopes, numerous Giants nymphs and the Erinyes for siblings, and 6,000 children of his own.

* GodOfTheMoon: It was common for Greek lunar goddesses to receive the epithet "Phoebe", but as for the original Phoebe herself, she doesn't seem to have ''actively'' fulfilled the role of a moon goddess at any point.
* {{Lunacy}}: Her name was given to a number of lunar goddesses, most famously Artemis/Diana and Luna.

* {{Seers}}: Once had the power, later gave it to Apollo.

Titan goddess and "Mother of the Gods", Rhea was the wife of Cronus, identified in Rome with the goddess '''Ops'''. She would give birth to all the original Olympic gods. However, Cronos learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his children. Thus, Cronus swallowed all of his children as soon as they were born, with the exception of Zeus, because Rhea gave him a rock to eat instead. She hid Zeus in a cave where [[ContinuitySnarl someone else raised him]].

Wife of Oceanus and a sea goddess, she was the mother of the chief rivers of the world (know to the Greeks at the time) such as the Nile. She is also probably most well known for a having ''a lot'' of children. In fact, other than being everybody's mother, she really plays no other major role in Greek literary tradition, other than raising Hera as her stepchild during the war with the Titans. Is supposedly the reason Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are circumpolar (at Hera's request).

* {{Nephewism}}: She and Oceanus adopted Hera, the daughter of their siblings Cronus and Rhea, in some versions, and were very doting parents to her. In one version Hera asks Tethys not to let Ursa Major (Callisto, whom Zeus impregnated) sink in the water for having bore Zeus' son, and Tethys granted her wish.

* ContinuitySnarl: Even considering the usual divergences to Greek mythology, Atlas has two attestments to this trope to this day; the Atlas mountains are named after the myth where Medusa's head was [[TakenForGranite to turn him to stone]], while the Pillars of Hercules have been named after two promontories said to be raised up by Hercules to hold up the sky and relieve Atlas of his duty. This being said though, some Roman sources actually reconcile the two myths by claiming the Pillars of Hercules ''was'' the Atlas mountains until [[DungeonBypass Hercules decided to smash through it]] instead of climbing over it.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: He killed his father who had imprisoned his siblings which made his mother upset. However, he not only turned his back on them, but he even began to eat his own children to retain his status; becoming as cruel if not more than his father.

* MotherOfAThousandYoung: A rare heroic example. She sired with Oceanus ''6,000'' children (divided equally between the males and females), some of whom became famous in their own right.

* ActionGirl: Takes part in the Trojan War, and Hermes even refuses to fight her after seeing Hera beat up Artemis, telling her to just say she won! Archaeological finds also show her fighting against the Giants during the Gigantomachy.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Though not as disproportionate as in other cases since there ''was'' a justification, but it didn't make it any less [[JerkassGods jerkass]]. She ordered Apollo and Artemis to kill Niobe's ''fourteen'' children because Niobe bragged them more than Leto's own children. While this might count as ValuesDissonance, the ancient Greeks did regard hubris as one of the most heinous crimes you could ever commit, especially against the mother of one of their most favorite gods, Apollo.

* AmicableExes: She willingly offers Zeus a divorce when she notices he is trying to win over Hera. He kept her on as an advisor and it seemed like they would stay friends... [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished at first.]]

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: There are ''3,000'' of them! And this is not counting the fact that they also have 3,000 sisters, the Oceanid, which mean that all of them number ''6,000''. Oceanus and Tethys must have loved each other very much for that to happen.

* DotingGrandparent: Provided his granddaughter Medea the means to escape Corinth. Apparently her tendency of murdering her way out of problems was not a deal-breaker for him.

* BalefulPolymorph:
** Turned Arge, a huntress, into a doe when she claimed that the stag she was pursuing, fast as the sun as it was, would eventually be caught by her.
** Turned Phineus into a mole in one of the many versions of his myth over some insult.
** Turned Nerites into a shellfish for unspecified reasons.

* TokenGoodTeammate: A fragment attributed to the lost epic ''Titanomachy'' claims he was the only of the Titans who did not attack Zeus.

* FallenHero: Kronos, the youngest but bravest child, overthrew his evil father, was crowned king, married the beautiful Rhea and oversaw a new Golden Age. All very classic hero's journey stuff...too bad he got so paranoid he ended up repeating dear old Dad's tyranny.

* AdaptationalHeroism: The Romans believed that Saturn fled to Latium after being overthrown by his son. Saturn proceeded establish the Golden Age in Latium and bring agriculture and civilization to the people. (The Greeks also believed that Cronus ruled during the Golden Age, but that it took place before Zeus overthrew him.)

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: He killed his father who had imprisoned his siblings which made his mother upset. However, he not only turned his back on them, but he even began to eat his own children to retain his status; becoming as cruel if not more than his father

* TheSmartGuy: UpToEleven with him being god of intelligence.

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A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, making her an Oceanid. Was actually Zeus's first spouse, and was a goddess of Wisdom and deep thought, though her name actually implies a combination of wisdom and cunning. It was Metis who gave Zeus the poison that forced Cronos to vomit out his children. However, Zeus feared Metis, because she was prophesied to have extremely powerful children, the second of which would be more powerful than Zeus himself. Zeus promptly swallowed her. Metis, however, was already pregnant with a powerful child (Athena) and went to work building armor for her inside Zeus, causing him great pain. Eventually, one way or another, Zeus got his head cracked open, and out popped Athena. After Athena's birth Metis continued to live in Zeus's head giving him advice and is it said that she was the source of his wisdom.

* SadlyMythtaken: Today, many people mistakenly believe that Atlas's task was to hold up the Earth, not the Heavens.
** Most likely because [[MindScrew the heavens were depicted as a sphere]].

Zeus's second(DependingOnTheWriter) wife and daughter of Uranus and Gaia, Themis was the goddess of divine law, order, and custom. Themis in many ways represented tradition, mores, customs, and such, especially those said to have been handed down by the gods. A prophetess, with the ability to see into the future, and thus received the Oracle at Delphi, which she passed on to Phoebe. It is sometimes said that she became a goddess of divine justice, but this role is also taken up by Nemesis. She was so respected, even Hera, her successor as Zeus's wife, referred to her as "Lady Themis". With Zeus, she gave birth to Astraea, the Moirai (possibly), and both generations of the Hours. She was also stated to be the mother of Prometheus in some myths, which would make her Iapetos wife(along with two other goddesses)

* FlatCharacter: Though better than the Potamoi, since some of the Oceanid actually became the ancestors of some ''very'' important gods by virtue of their association with equally important gods/Titans (the Oceanid Pleione gave birth to Maia, who gave birth to the Olympian Hermes).

* Seers: Nonnus presents him as an oracular god (probably astrology-based) who warns Demeter that Zeus will rape her daughter Persephone.

The titan goddess of nocturnal oracles and falling stars, she was the daughter of the titans Phoebe and Coeus, the sister of Leto, and the mother of Hecate. She flung herself into the Aegean Sea to escape the womanizing Zeus (while transformed as a quail) and thus became the "quail island", Ortygia, which became later identified with the island of Delos. It was the only piece of Earth that would give refuge to Leto when she was pursued by the always vengeful Hera while pregnant with Zeus's children.

* OppositesAttract: ''Literally''. He is the god of dusk. His wife, Eos, is the goddess of dawn. It's a rare thing, since most gods usually abide by the BirdsOfAFeather rule.

Oceanus was the oldest of the Titans and son of Oranos and Gaia. He ruled over the sea much like Pontus of the Protogenoi and Poseidon of the Olympians. Oceanus was also the god who regulated the rising and setting of the heavenly bodies which [[ScienceMarchesOn were believed]] to emerge and descend into his watery realm at the ends of the earth.

* HeroicNeutral: Oceanus never involved himself in things like the overthrowing of Oranos or the Titanomachy. ''The Iliad'' claims that he and Tethys provided protection to Hera while the Titanomachy was raging, but didn't take part in the battle themselves. Thus he was one of the few Titans Zeus tolerated after ascending to the throne.
* LordOfTheOcean: The god of the ocean, sometimes even still ruling the Atlantic while Posedon gets the Mediterranean.

* MakingASplash: But take note that, despite his appearance, he isn't the sea itself.

* AssholeVictim: The logical conclusion of the first two entries when his wife manages to save their youngest child- Zeus.

* AllLovingHero: At least according to Hesiod, who calls her "ever mild, gentle to mortals and immortal gods, mild from the beginning, most kindly within Olympus"

* LovableSexManiac: For the ancient Greeks, who saw Eos as the bright day-bringer who disperses the dark and cold night.

* LightIsGood: The Sun was seen as a giver of life and happiness. Plato writes that Helios is the symbolic offspring of the idea of the Good.

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