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4The Titan gods of Myth/ClassicalMythology.
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8!!First Generation Titans
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10[[folder:Cronus / Kronos / Saturnus]]
11!! Κρόνος | Sāturnus | ♄
12[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2nd_century_roman_saturn_from_bulla_regia_giorcesbardo6_on_wikisource.jpg]]
13The previous king of the gods, he was the leader of the Titans, the generation of gods prior to the Olympians. Typically associated with time (mostly due to the similarity of his name with the Greek word for "time"), the harvest, and agriculture.
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15His Roman counterpart was '''Saturnus''', although frankly because Romans mixed their own mythology with the Greek one, it's unclear if they should truly be considered the same entity. Most likely Saturn was an entirely separate Roman god before being assimilated into Cronus.
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17* AbusiveParents: Swallowing your newborn children doesn't win you the "Parent of the Year" award.
18* AntiVillain: Despite being a real asshole to his siblings and a true villain to his kids, he ''did'' rule over humanity in a Golden Age of peace and prosperity. According to Creator/{{Hesiod}} at least, after his overthrow he was allowed to rule [[{{Heaven}} Elysium]].
19* ArchnemesisDad: Uniquely, he's on both ends of this trope; Oranos was his archnemesis dad, and he himself was the archnemesis dad to Zeus and his siblings.
20* 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).
21* AssholeVictim: The logical conclusion of his baby-eating tendencies when his wife manages to save their youngest child- Zeus.
22* BigBad: If you root for Zeus and his siblings, that is.
23* 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.
24* CallingTheOldManOut: Castrated and overthrew his dad Oranos for imprisoning the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes in Tartarus. Shame he didn't turn out to be much better.
25%%* ChildEater / EatsBabies: Each kid he had with Rhea was eaten, except Zeus.
26* CompositeCharacter: Numerous modern interpretations combine him with Chronos, making him [[TimeMaster Titan of Time]], due to their near identical names. Supposedly even the ancient Greeks did the same thing due to the name confusion.
27* DependingOnTheWriter: What exactly happened to him after his overthrow by Zeus differs depending on the writer. To Creator/{{Homer}}, Cronus was still locked up in Tartarus, and remains there to this day. To Creator/{{Hesiod}} on the other hand, Cronus was later released and allowed to rule the Isle of the Blessed in the underworld. The Romans claimed that Saturn never went to Tartarus at all, but fled over to Italy.
28* DruidicSickle: The sickle was one of the many symbols associated with Cronus, most notably as the weapon he used to overthrow Uranus. Overlaps with his role as an agricultural deity.
29* TheExile: The Romans had a tradition of Saturn being an immigrant god that fled to Latium after being overthrown and was welcomed by Janus.
30* FailedASpotCheck: He mistook a ''stone'' for the newborn Zeus. Though the stone was wrapped in blankets like a baby.
31* 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.
32* FateWorseThanDeath: Just as his father, he was cut into tiny pieces. With his own scythe. After which his remains were unceremoniously tossed into Tartarus along with much of the rest of the titans. [[AndIMustScream And as Titans are technically immortals]]...
33** Subverted in Orphic tradition, where Cronus just got drugged into a stupor and dragged into the Cave of Nyx, the goddess of night, where he would sleep for eternity. Maybe not ideal, but doesn't sound all that bad.
34* ForTheEvulz: After freeing the Cyclopses and Hecatonceries long enough to build a palace on Othrys, then he threw them back into Tartarus with extra security ''[[JerkAss just to be a dick]]''.
35* GodEating: Infamous for devouring his divine children so they wouldn't overthrow him, like how he overthrew his own father.
36* TheGoodKing: Played with. While he is said to have ruled over a golden age while king of the gods, as a person he was paranoid, violent, abusive and deceitful.
37* GoodPowersBadPeople: An interpretation of his moral alignment, as he was an agricultural god who may have brought a golden age to mankind, and yet ate his offspring and probably raped his wife (how else would she have made more babies to be eaten?), and disrespected Gaia's wish to free his imprisoned siblings.
38* GreenThumb: As the god of agriculture.
39* ImAHumanitarian: Eat his newborn children one by one in order to preserve his rule, but unlike most examples, it's less permanent as Zeus manages to have them vomit them all out and they were just as immortal as he is after all, meaning they couldn't die. It helps that he also swallowed them whole- immortal or not, if he had chewed them up, the Olympians would have remained seriously mangled for eternity.
40* JerkAss: Patricidal, power hungry, paranoid, doesn't keep his word, and eats his own sons and daughters. There's a reason so many Titans bailed on him once war broke out.
41* JumpedAtTheCall: Some sources state that he was very eager to use the chance when Gaea asked who would take revenge on Ouranos.
42* KarmaHoudini: According to some sources, such as Hesiod's ''Works and Days'' and the poems of Pindar, Zeus eventually forgave him and released him from Tartarus, placing him as the ruler of Elysium.
43* MisterSeahorse: Somehow his children emerged fully grown once Zeus induced vomiting many years after they had been swallowed. Most likely because Cronus is extremely huge and his belly is habitable paired with the facts that said children are literally immortals, incapable of dying. Or because Greek myth is weird like that.
44* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His nickname was [[NamesToRunAwayFrom/TheAdjectiveOne "The Crooked One"]] or "Crooked Cronus" (Κρόνος ἀγκυλομήτης).
45* PhysicalGod: Just like most Greek gods, he was divine power in humanoid form.
46* RankScalesWithAsskicking: He's the leader of the Titans and also the most powerful.
47* SealedEvilInACan: Imprisoned in Tartarus after being overthrown.
48* SinisterScythe: His token item, which he used when eviscerating his father Ouranos.
49* TimeMaster: Associated with time, in particular time as a destructive force that "devours" all things.
50* YoungestChildWins: He is always mentioned last in the lists of Titans by birth order. Even if one source mentioned male Titans first then female Titans, and other mentioned female Titans first then male Titans, and still other a combination of them, Cronus is always the last. Fittingly, he is also the most famous of them.
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53[[folder:Hyperion]]
54Of all the Titans, this is probably the most mysterious, since practically nothing about him comes on Greek texts, though it is known he fought against the gods in the Titanomachy, and probably might had helped Cronus kill his father Ouranos, not to mention that he is father of '''Helios''', '''Selene''' and '''Eos''', the gods of the Sun, Moon and Dawn respectively. The Lord of light and of the East, the first making him not very unique since there are several other deities in Greek Mythology aligned with light, but should he appear as an enemy of the Olympians in modern media he would be [[LightIsNotGood quite the nice contrast]] to the usual demonic legions (and, in fact, he did [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians appear once]]).
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56* BrotherSisterIncest: With Theia.
57* DisappearedDad: Most likely thrown into Tartarus. An ancient fragment says that at night Helios returns home to "his dear wife, his beloved children and his mother", but the father is nowhere to be found.
58* FlatCharacter: Not a lot is known about him.
59* GodOfLight: Is associated with light and may possibly be the sun depending on who you ask.
60* LightEmUp: As the Titan god of the sun.
61* LightIsNotGood: If depicted negatively.
62* MeaningfulName: His name means "he who watches from above". Aside from fire, lightning and astronomical objects are the most obvious natural light sources.
63* PhysicalGod
64* ThePowerOfTheSun: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. He is the father of the sun god and they are treated as the same in many texts, but Hyperion's role in the myth is little more than to father the actual sun, rather than act as a solar god on his own right.
65* SuperheroSpeciation: Averted, He's the Lord of light, which makes him not very unique in that respect since there are several other deities in Greek Mythology aligned with light.
66* WeHardlyKnewYe
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68
69[[folder:Iapetos / Iapetus]]
70 The god of the mortal lifespan as well as craftsmanship and Lord of the West In addition to being ancestor of mankind. Helped subdue Ouranos so Cronus could castrate him. After this, got married to Asia/Clymene/Themis and had four sons: Atlas, Menoitius, Prometheus and Epimetheus. He sided with Cronus during the Titanomachy and was banished into Tartarus after losing.
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72* ContinuitySnarl: Who his wife is and how many children he has. The main ones are Asia and Clymene but some sources mention that Themis is the mother of his son Prometheus, and presumably his other sons as well since atlas is still his brother there.
73* TheDreaded:Iapetus is ''really'' hyped by the myths (even his ''chains'' get some hype as well) and is constantly put in the same sentences as Cronus as if to imply they were equals. Zeus wishes not to fight him again and when Typhon is whooping his ass, he dreads thinking of Iapetus. ''Typhon'' even says that he will keep Iapetos chains for Poseidon. According to valerius flaccus, he was the general of the titans (instead of his son Atlas) and had to be defeated before Zeus could rule the universe.
74* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His name means ''Piercer''.
75* PhysicalGod
76* SingleSexOffspring: Only had sons. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the texts where he is the father of a woman named Anchiale.
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79[[folder:Koios / Coeus / Polus]]
80Titan god of heavenly oracles and Intelligence, and Lord of the North. Another accomplice of Cronus. His alternate name was '''Polos''' (Of the North Pole). One of the few titans with a Roman name, '''Polus'''. Occasionally celebrated as the grandfather of Apollon via Leto, as the Olympian's role in divination is said to come due to his role as the heavenly axis.
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82* AnIcePerson: Titan of the North, which the ancient Greeks associated with intense cold.
83* GrimUpNorth: Was the Titan of the North, which in Greek mythology is depicted as a pretty hostile place.
84* PhysicalGod
85* MadGod: According to Valerius Flaccus, he went mad due to his imprisonment in Tartarus.
86* {{Seers}}: Was the Titan of celestial oracles and divination, while his wife/sister Phoebe was associated with earthly oracles.
87* SingleSexOffspring: Only has two daughters.
88* StarPower: Associated with the northern star and the axis of the Heavens.
89* TheSmartGuy: He's the god of intelligence.
90[[/folder]]
91
92[[folder:Krios / Crius]]
93The Titan lord of the South, who helped Cronus to depose Ouranos. Associated with the constellation ''Aries'' (The Ram).
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95* AnimalMotifs: His name means Ram. His sons are also associated with animals. Pallas with goats and Perses with hounds.
96* PhysicalGod
97* StarPower: Also associated with constellations.
98* BrotherSisterIncest: Unlike his other siblings, doesn't have a hint of a relationship with his full sister Mnemosyne, but interestingly marries his half-sister Eurybia.
99* SingleSexOffspring: Has three sons, but no daughters.
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101
102[[folder:Mnemosyne]]
103No, not that Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}. The Titan goddess of memory, and the daughter of Gaia and Uranus. She and Zeus had sex for nine consecutive nights, and each copulation led to the birth of one of the nine Muses. It was said that kings and poets receive their great oratorical ability from Mnemosyne and her daughters, the Muses.
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105* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of memory.
106* BrotherSisterIncest: Averted. Never had a relationship with her brothers. Only got together with her nephew Zeus.
107* FlatCharacter: She is mostly there to mother the Muses.
108* MassiveNumberedSiblings: She has eleven Titan siblings, plus three Hecatoncheires and three Cyclopes. And that's not counting the various half-siblings born to either her father or her mother alone. She herself had nine daughters with Zeus.
109* PhysicalGod
110* SingleSexOffspring: Nine daughters, zero sons.
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113[[folder:Oceanus]]
114[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/naples_archaeology_museum_5914746240.jpg]]
115Oceanus was the oldest of the Titans and son of Oranos and Gaia. He ruled over the rivers, so his job was pretty distinct from Poseidon's, who ruled over salt water. 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.
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117* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of the Ocean, the great river.
118* BrotherSisterIncest: Married his sister Tethys.
119* HappilyMarried: Initially, at least. He and his wife had around 6,000 children (3,000 sons, 3,000 daughters) and also raised Hera together. However, by the time of ''Literature/TheIliad'', the two of them have been quarreling for quite a while for unspecified reasons.
120* HeroicNeutral: Oceanus never involved himself in things like the overthrowing of Ouranos or the Titanomachy. ''Literature/TheIliad'' 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.
121* 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.
122* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Eleven or twelve Titans, plus three Hecatoncheires, three Cyclopes, numerous Giants nymphs and the Erinyes for siblings. He also had 6,000 children of his own.
123* MotherOfAThousandYoung: A rare heroic example. He and Tethys together had ''6,000'' children, some of whom became famous in their own right.
124* MakingASplash: He is the embodiment of the Ocean, which to the ancient Greeks was a huge river that encircled the earth.
125* PhysicalGod
126* SnakePeople: He has the lower body of a serpent.
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129[[folder:Phoebe]]
130One of the original Titans (children of Gaia and Uranus), she is traditionally associated with the moon due to her name, though she doesn't do anything with it. her husband was Coeus, with whom she had Leto and Asteria. She later received control of the oracle of Delphi from Themis before it became the shrine of her grandson, Apollo.
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132* ActionGirl: Fights against the Giants next to her daughter Asteria in the Gigantomachy frieze on the Pergamon Altar.
133* BrotherSisterIncest: With Coeus.
134* FlatCharacter: Not much is known about Phoebe besides who she birthed and her having the Oracle of Delphi, which became Apollo's anyway.
135* 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.
136* {{Lunacy}}: Her name was given to a number of lunar goddesses, most famously Artemis/Diana and Selene/Luna.
137* PhysicalGod
138* SadlyMythtaken: Associated with the moon closely, but she wasn't the pantheon's original moon goddess.
139* {{Seers}}: Once had the power, which was later given to Apollo.
140* SingleSexOffspring: Has two daughters, Leto and Asteria.
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143[[folder:Rhea]]
144Titan 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 Olympians. 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, as Rhea had given him a rock to eat instead. She hid Zeus in a cave where [[ContinuitySnarl someone else raised him]].
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146* ActionGirl: Apparently she had wrestling skills and used them to fight Eurynome who was the wife of Ophion, who previously ruled the world before Cronos and Rhea dethroned him.
147* AlmightyMom: She is the only Titan Zeus not only allows, but encourages. She was said to be exclusively worshiped in certain parts of Crete. Saving her children at the cost of her husband, went a long way.
148* CompositeCharacter: She would eventually assimilate a lot of the attributes of the Phrygian MotherGoddess Cybele, including a chariot pulled by lions and orgiastic rituals including wine and dancing, hence her raising Dionysus. Some myths even have her fleeing Cronus from the Mount Ida in Crete (where she originated) to the Mount Ida in Anatolia, near Troy (which was sacred to Cybele).
149* GoodParents: In some texts, it's at least implied that Rhea genuinely loved her children, not wanting Kronos to devour them and by the time Zeus came along, pleading with Gaia to tell her a way to save him. Additionally, some stories claim that she continued to associate with the Olympians after the Titanomachy, implying that she and her children remained on good terms.
150* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Due to the aforementioned CompositeCharacter status, Rhea's worship rituals included wine, dancing and orgies. Evidently, the mother of the Olympians [[CoolOldLady had something of a wild side]].
151* HorseOfADifferentColor: Rhea is depicted riding a lion, her sacred animal.
152* MotherGoddess: The ''mother'' of the gods.
153%%* PhysicalGod
154* RaisedByGrandparents: Rhea is tasked with raising a young Dionysus by Hermes in some tellings of Dionysus' backstory.
155* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She just disappeared after giving birth to all her children and Cronus the stone. There's no mention if she approved Zeus overthrowing Cronus. But then, all female first-generation Titans are like ''that''.
156** Although she makes a brief appearance in some versions of the myth of Persephone, as a messenger sent by Zeus to persuade Demeter to return to Olympus, so presumably she was able to stay on her children's good side.
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159[[folder:Tethys]]
160Wife of Oceanus and a sea goddess, she was the mother of the chief rivers of the world (those known to the Greeks at the time, anyway) such as the Nile. She is also probably most well-known for a having ''a lot'' of children. In fact, aside from being everybody's mother, she really plays no other major role in Greek literary tradition other than raising Hera during the war with the Titans. She's supposedly the reason Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are circumpolar (at Hera's request).
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162* BrotherSisterIncest: Married her brother Oceanus.
163* DotingParent: To Hera, and presumably her own children as well.
164* MakingASplash: Though take note that she isn't the sea itself.
165* MotherOfAThousandYoung: A rare heroic example. She and Oceanus had ''6,000'' children (divided equally between the males and females), some of whom became famous in their own right.
166* {{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 born Zeus's son, and Tethys granted her wish.
167** Tethys also nursed two other of her niblings, Helios and Selene, in their infancy.
168* PhysicalGod
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170
171[[folder:Theia]]
172Theia was a Titan goddess and wife of Hyperion. Her name simply means ''goddess'', which should tell you that there is not very much to her character. She, however, may have been a Titan glory. Some sources do stress that she gave eyesight to mankind and that she was the mother of Helios, however.
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174* BrotherSisterIncest: With her brother Hyperion.
175* ExtraOreDinary: Apparently associated with gold and shiny metals, as per Pindar's Fifth Isthmian.
176* FlatCharacter: Even compared to other members of her generation, there is not much special about her.
177* GlowingEyes : The Greeks actually believed that eyes had tiny suns in them. One of the few concrete aspects about Theia is her role in supplying this "light of the eyes". Through this she is also said to give jewels and precious metals their beauty.
178* IHaveManyNames: Also according to the aforementioned Fifth Isthmian, Theia is "the goddess of many names". And truly enough she has been [[ContinuitySnarl variously known]] as Euryphaessa, Aethra, or Basileia.
179* GodOfLight: The goddess of light and sight. May or may not be a relic from a Pre-Greek sun goddess.
180* LightEmUp: As with most of her family.
181* PhysicalGod
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183
184[[folder:Themis]]
185Zeus'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)
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187* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of divine law.
188* MassiveNumberedSiblings: She has eleven Titan siblings, plus three Hecatoncheires and three Cyclopes. And that's not counting the various half-siblings born to either her father or her mother alone. She herself had six daughters, three Horae and three Fates, with Zeus.
189* NatureAdoresAVirgin: [[DefiedTrope Defied]], as Nyx prophesized that Themis would remain a virgin until a son was born to Rhea and Cronus.
190* PhysicalGod:
191* ScalesOfJustice: Themis as the goddess of law and order has a set of scales as her symbol. Themis along with Dike are the providers of the Tropenamer.
192* SecondLove: Zeus' second wife after he ate Metis. It didn't last.
193* {{Seers}}: Received the Oracle of Delphi from her mother Gaia, and then gave it to her sister Phoebe.
194* SingleSexOffspring: Six daughters (the three Horae and the three Fates) but no sons.
195* TokenGoodTeammate: In the Titanomachy, Themis and Prometheus were the only Titans to ally themselves with Zeus and oppose Kronos. The rest either sided with Kronos or remained neutral.
196[[/folder]]
197
198!!Second Generation Titans
199
200[[folder:Asteria]]
201The 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.
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203* AbhorrentAdmirer: Zeus. He chased her so she transformed into a quail and leapt into the sea to escape him, thereupon she further transformed into a wandering island with no fixed location that would eventually be known as Delos. According to Nonnus, after Asteria fled from Zeus, ''Poseidon'' was the one to pick up the chase, forcing Asteria to transform into an island to escape.
204* ActionGirl: Fights against the Giants next to her mother Phoebe in the Gigantomachy frieze on the Pergamon Altar.
205* AnimalMotifs: Quails, [[CaptainObvious duh]].
206* {{Animorphism}}: Transformed into a quail and then an island.
207* AttemptedRape: By both Zeus and Poseidon.
208* DarkIsNotEvil: Associated with the night, but is not evil.
209* KissingCousins: She and her husband Perses are first cousins.
210* MeaningfulName: Her name means "starry."
211* OneSteveLimit: There are several characters in Greek mythology named Asteria besides her.
212* PhysicalGod
213* StarPower: Her name means "she of the stars" and might denote a role as a stellar goddess, though surviving evidence is little and obscure.
214* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Her means of escaping amorous gods.
215[[/folder]]
216
217[[folder:Astraeus]]
218The Titan god of the dusk, and son of Crius and Eurybia (however, Hyginas identifies him as a Gigantes and son of Tartarus and Gaia). Was the husband of Eos (goddess of the dawn), and together, they were daybreak and nightfall. They are the parents of the Anemoi and Astra Planeta (Wandering Planets).
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220* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of the dusk.
221* ContinuitySnarl
222** MultipleChoicePast
223* FlatCharacter: He didn't really have any myth associated with him; all that was described was that he wed Eos and they had the Anemoi as children. Said Eos and the Anemoi, meanwhile, got their own individual stories.
224* MeaningfulName: His name means "starry".
225* 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.
226* {{Seers}}: Nonnus presents him as an oracular god (probably astrology-based) who warns Demeter that Zeus will rape her daughter Persephone.
227* StarPower: Probably.
228[[/folder]]
229
230[[folder:Asia]]
231Asia is interesting: she is the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, making her a second-generation Titan (and Oceanid), but is the wife of Iapetus, a first generation and her uncle. Together, she and her husband had Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius. It is from her that we get ''Asia'', as in the continent.
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233* FlatCharacter: Didn't figure much, other than being one of Oceanus and Tethys' 3,000 daughters and siring four sons with Iapetus. However, we ''did'' get the name of a continent after her.
234* MassiveNumberedSiblings: She has 5,999 siblings (3,000 male and 2,999 female), all of whom represent rivers and bodies of water around the world.
235[[/folder]]
236
237[[folder:Atlas]]
238[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/farnese_atlas.JPG]]
239Probably one of the more well-known Titans, his task, as punishment for fighting against Zeus during his war against the Titans, is to hold up Uranus (the sky) away from Gaia (the Earth) to prevent the two from "embracing". Generally considered the son of Iapetus and Asia. Later Hercules came to Atlas to ask him to retrieve the Golden Apples for him, one of his Twelve Labors. When Atlas returned, he attempted to trick Hercules into holding up Uranus permanently, as anyone who wants to take Atlas away from his task had to do it voluntarily. Hercules, however, tricked Atlas into retaking his load. Depending on the myth, Hercules either ran away with the apples or built the two Pillars of Hercules to hold up the sky, thus freeing Atlas from his task forever and liberating him, much like how Hercules also liberated Prometheus.
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241* AndIMustScream: He must hold up the Heavens for all of eternity. You probably know this wasn't at all painless. He may as well be the god of this trope, since he is the god of endurance.
242* BadassBookworm: Was the general of the titans even though there was a literal WarGod on their side, is powerful enough to hold the sky forever and taught mankind Astronomy and mathematics.
243* BarrierMaiden: He forever holds up the sky and thus separates Uranus from Gaia. What would happen if he stopped doing this isn't quite clear but it may be possible that Uranus and Gaia could create even more monsters (assuming that Uranus' castration wasn't truly the end of that..).
244* 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. Another version states that Athena turned him to stone while returning the apples of the Hesperides, which solves the problem of Hercules being a descendant of Perseus.
245* FateWorseThanDeath: Being forced to hold up the Heavens for eternity certainly qualifies. Atlas himself comes to agree, being only too happy when Perseus turns him to stone.
246* MercyKill: Perseus or Athena show him Medusa's head, turning him to stone and ending his suffering.
247* PhysicalGod
248* 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]].
249* TakenForGranite: Either Perseus or Athena showed him Medusa's head as a MercyKill, turning him into the Atlas Mountains and relieving him of his duty.
250[[/folder]]
251
252[[folder:Eos / Aurora]]
253[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eos_kidnapping_boy.jpg]]
254The Titan goddess of the dawn, known as '''Aurora''' in the Roman pantheon. She either opens the gates for her brother Helios to ride out or harnesses his horses to the chariot.
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256* AbductionIsLove: Carried off a lot of men she fell in love with at first sight. Not everyone was happy with that, though.
257** Cephalus was so vocal about wanting to return to his wife she had to let him go.
258* AbhorrentAdmirer: To all the men she carried off, though Cephalus probably wins by a long shot.
259* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of the dawn.
260* BrotherSisterTeam: With fellow daylight deity Helios. She is said to open the gates for him each morning, and some texts even say she accompanies him throughout the entire duration of his diurnal journey through the skies.
261* DidntThinkThisThrough: Made her boyfriend immortal, but forgot about eternal ''youth''.
262* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: She often carried off mortal men to be her lovers, whether they wanted it or not.
263* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Often carried off handsome young men to be her boy toys regardless of if they already had a wife or if they were unwilling participants. In at least one case she sent one guy back because she got tired of him begging to see his wife and home again.
264* EmpathicEnvironment: When she witnessed her son Memnon dying in war, in sorrow she made Helios downcast and asked Nyx to come out earlier, bringing night.
265* ExtremeLibido: Thanks to Aphrodite, she was incredibly sex-obsessed.
266* FieryRedhead: Often depicted with red hair.
267* ImmortalityInducer: She secured immortality for Tithonus. Too bad she forgot about eternal youth...
268* InterruptedIntimacy: A rather extreme example; in ''The Odyssey'', Calypso mentions that Artemis killed Orion while he and Eos were in the middle of making love.
269* GodOfLight: The goddess of the dawn, sometimes also the day.
270* KissingCousins: Her husband Astraeus is her first cousin.
271* LightEmUp: Goddess of dawn and all that shines. Even may be synonymous with Hemera, carrying the chariot of day in some poems.
272* LightIsNotGood: Besides being a SerialRapist, the myth of Tithonus (i.e. she makes him immortal and still aging, so much so he becomes either a wreck or a cricket), combined with [[Myth/HinduMythology Ushas]] being described as aging human beings, it seems that the original role of the dawn goddess in Proto Indo-European mythology was to make you old.
273* LovableSexManiac: For the ancient Greeks, who saw Eos as the bright day-bringer who disperses the dark and cold night. Meanwhile she had an unquenchable lust and kidnapped young men to satiate it.
274* LoveGoddess: Might have originally been that; she and Aphrodite share some traits, pointing to semi-shared origins.
275* MayflyDecemberRomance: Attempted to avert this by asking Zeus to grant Tithonos immortality, but forgot to ask for eternal youth.
276* MeaningfulName: Her name is the Greek word for the dawn.
277* MultipleChoicePast: She is usually said to be the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, but in some rare traditions she is the daughter of Pallas, or even Helios himself. Shares this with her sister Selene.
278* OppositesAttract: Despite her lust, she did have a proper divine husband/spouse. He just happens to be the god of dusk: Astraeus and he [[ContinuitySnarl may or may not]] be in Tartarus.
279* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Her son Memnon was slain during the Trojan War, despite her pleas to Zeus to spare his life.
280%%* PhysicalGod
281* PietaPlagiarism: [[OlderThanFeudalism Sort of.]] She had a son called Memnon who was killed in UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar, and in some paintings was depicted as holding him across her knees.
282* PlotIncitingInfidelity: The story of Eos, Cephalus and Procris, though it isn't as much infidelity as it is kidnapping (though for practical purposes, this is how Procris saw it). Eos kidnaps Cephalus, he wants to go back, she tells him that Procris hasn't been faithful, Cephalus with Eos' help tricks Procris into agreeing to sleep with a "stranger" (Cephalus in disguise) which ruins their marriage. Some time later, after the two reconciled, when Cephalus calls upon the breeze ("aura" in Latin, sounding similar to "Aurora"), Procris thinks Cephalus is once again leaving her for Eos, so she spies on him hidden in some bushes. The hunter Cephalus, thinking it's a wild animal, throws his spear at the bush, killing Procris.
283* ReallyGetsAround: After sleeping with Ares, she was cursed by Aphrodite to have an unquenchable lust.
284* SecretTestOfCharacter: When she put word into Cephalus's mind that his wife Procris hadn't been faithful to him while he was busy being Eos' sex captive, she altered his appearance so he could proposition Procris as a stranger to see whether she would stay true to her marriage vows.
285* SerialHomewrecker: She abducted Cephalus, who was married to Procris. She also slept with Ares, famous for his affair with Aphrodite.
286* SerialRapist: Due to Aphrodite's curse upon her, she became sex-obsessed and proceeded to abduct any men who she took a fancy to.
287* TheLostLenore: Orion is this for her, who was killed by Artemis because gods don't approve of goddesses seeking out relationships with mortal men.
288* WhoWantsToLiveForever She granted her lover Tithonus' immortality, but forgot to ask for eternal youth as well. So he kept on aging, but not dying, until he became a shrivelled, helpless old man who could do nothing but suffer.
289* WingedHumanoid: Also depicted as having wings.
290* WomanScorned: When Cephalus makes it very clear that ''no'', he doesn't like Eos and ''yes'', he'd very much like to return to Procris, she didn't take it well, so she poisons his mind that she hadn't been faithful to him while he as gone.
291[[/folder]]
292
293[[folder:Epimetheus]]
294Brother to Prometheus and Atlas, and son of Iapetus. Epimetheus was the direct brother to Prometheus, and together, they created mankind and all animals (mostly). While Prometheus was smart and crafty, Epimetheus was foolish and unwise. Epimetheus was initially tasked with giving positive traits to every animal, but when he got to man, he found he had nothing left to give, lacking his brother's foresight. His brother then decided to give man fire and civilization. Later married Pandora (yes, the one who opened the box).
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296* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: He and Prometheus are twin titans of hindsight and foresight, almost always portrayed as identical.
297* CaptainObvious: So estranged to being able to think ahead, he is often portrayed as not being able to accurately gage something unless it is literally happening in front of him.
298* DidntThinkThisThrough:
299** As the Titan of ''afterthought'', this was in his nature. He was literally unable to consider the consequences of his actions until they had already happened.
300** "Oh boy, oh boy! Humans, I'm going to put so much cool stuff on you! Like claws and a tail and night vision and an awesome sense of balance--oh, wait. Just gave the last of those to cats. Well, how 'bout wings and beautiful plumage and awesome vision and voices that carry for--''Birds.'' Darn. I know! I've got a slime trail that'll let you climb things and some nice thick shells... which look great on those snails over there. Prometheus! Little help?"
301** "What's that, Prometheus? Zeus holds a massive grudge against the two of us, and by extension the humans we love so much? Well, I'm still accepting this gift from him. ''And'' her box."
302* DistractedByTheSexy: Prometheus warned him against Pandora, but she was so beautiful Epimetheus immediately forgot about it.
303* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: It's right in their names.%% Although it takes quite an amount of foolishness to %%make Prometheus look
304* GoodJobBreakingItHero: He messed up when he tried to create mankind, and his brother Prometheus had to finish the job.
305* TheMaker: He did make a decent job when he created animals. Too bad he forgot our species.
306* MeaningfulName: It means "hindsight" or "afterthought".
307* MySkullRunnethOver: He has such an extensive memory, he has trouble finding brain space for even basic forethought.
308* PhotographicMemory: The further back an event is, the finer details he can recall. Considering [[DidntThinkThisThrough his absolutely horrendous decision-making ability]], this trait may have very well been life compensating him...or possibly just cursing his memory with his foolishness further.
309* PolarOppositeTwins: At least intellectually. He a Prometheus are twins and often portrayed as identical; But where Prometheus is so insightful he can see the future and is very proactive, Epimetheus is so short-sighted he has trouble rationing his efforts and very easily lead by others.
310* PhysicalGod
311[[/folder]]
312
313[[folder:Eurynome]]
314!!Εὐρυνόμη
315A second generation Titaness and daughter of Oceanus (no mother is mentioned but she is closely associated with the Oceanid of the same name). She was the first Queen of Heaven and the wife of the primordial snake god Ophion in some obscure Orphic myths before the rise of Cronus and Rhea.
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317* CompositeCharacter: Occasionally considered to be the same Eurynome who later fostered Zeus but this creates a ContinuitySnarl consider the way her story ends with her and her husband being killed off by Zeus' parents.
318* DesignatedGirlFight: Was said to have wrestled with Rhea for the crown.
319* HappilyMarried: By all accounts, despite him being a giant snake, she and Ophion were very content with each other.
320* TarotMotifs: She and Ophion are sometimes cited as the identities of the nude woman dancing with the snake often picture on the last Major Arcana card, the World.
321[[/folder]]
322
323[[folder:Helios / Helius / Sol]]
324!! Ἥλιος | Sol | ☉
325[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ilion_metopa.jpg]]
326The Titan god of the sun, known as '''Sol''' in the Roman pantheon. Sometimes equated with Apollo, he is usually the one driving a chariot of fiery steeds across the sky.
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328* AbhorrentAdmirer: Clytie is this for him. She was an Oceanid nymph who fell in love with him, but he preferred a mortal princess named Leucothoe over her (due to [[LoveGoddess Aphrodite]]'s shenanigans). Clytie was desperate to get him back, so she indirectly caused Leucothoe's death. [[SarcasmMode Surprisingly this failed to get his affections back on her]]. So she pined after him, until she turned into a heliotropium, so she is still gazing at him after all that time.
329** He might be this to [[PrettyBoy Nerites]]. In one version of the tale, he is the one to turn Nerites (Poseidon's lover) into shellfish. The author, Aelian, says he doesn't know why he did that, but speculates he might have wanted Nerites for himself.
330* AgeLift: Some of the early artwork may depict him with a beard, but he was presented as a beardless young man later on.
331* AncestralName: He shares a name/byname, Hyperion, with his father. In several texts the two of them are entirely identified.
332* AnimalMotifs: Closely associated with white horses and cattle.
333* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Same as Selene. Helios is literally the [[UsefulNotes/{{TheSun}} Sun]] itself.
334* BerserkButton: Helios is generally a nice god, he restored the giant Orion's eyesight and even took Herakles shooting him with arrows in stride before offering him a ride out of the desert (mainly because they didn't hurt him). But he had Odysseus' men killed without mercy after they ate one of his sacred cattle, even though they were risking starvation - this is the point that turns Odysseus into the SoleSurvivor of the Odyssey.
335* BlindedByTheSun: ''Entirely'' [[AvertedTrope averted]] in Orion's myth. Orion, who had been blinded by some mortal king, went to Helios, and Helios [[ArtisticLicenseBiology fixed his eyes and gave him back his sight]].
336* BrotherSisterIncest: In some versions, he and his sister Selene are the parents of the Horae, goddesses of the seasons.
337* BrotherSisterTeam: With fellow daylight deity Eos. She is said to open the gates for him each morning, and some texts even say she accompanies him throughout the entire duration of his diurnal journey through the skies.
338* CoolCar: His flaming chariot.
339* CoolHorse: His four horses that pull him. Their names vary but are usually associated with fire, light or lightning.
340* DefectorFromDecadence: Among the Titans, he was one of the few who abstained from fighting against the Olympians. He then joined them in the new era.
341* DeusExMachina: For Medea in Creator/{{Euripides}}'s ''Theatre/{{Medea}}''. He doesn't show up, but gives off-page a flying chariot to his granddaughter so she can escape the wrath of the Corinthians.
342* DidntThinkThisThrough: Promised his son Phaethon any favor, not expecting him to ask permission to drive his chariot for one day.
343* DistractedByTheSexy: According to one hymn, the reason why summer days are longer is because he stops mid-air to watch beautiful nymphs dance during festivals.
344** Also when Aphrodite made him fall for Leucothoe; he made the winter days longer because he would linger in the sky longer just to watch her from above.
345* FireballEyeballs: He and all of his descendants have fiery eyes.
346* ForcedTransformation:
347** 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.
348** Turned Phineus into a mole in one of the many versions of his myth over some insult.
349** Turned Nerites into a shellfish for unspecified reasons.
350* HappilyMarried: To Rhode in the Rhodian tradition. [[ContinuitySnarl Though this being Greek mythology]], other traditions give different women as his wife/official consort.
351** A few traditions have him actually ''marry'' Clymene (Phaethon's mother) and they were pretty happy in their marriage too.
352* HasAType: Most of his girlfriends are sea nymphs, in particular Oceanids. Even those who are not Oceanids tend to be descended or otherwise related to one, with few exceptions.
353* IDoNotDrinkWine: The ancient Greeks never sacrificed wine to Helios, reasoning that the god in charge of the solar system sould not get [[DrunkDriver drunk]].
354* IGaveMyWord: When his son Phaethon asks for evidence of his paternity, Helios swears on the River Styx to do anything he can to prove it. When Phaethon demands to drive the chariot of the sun Helios realizes his mistake and desperately tries to talk Phaethon out of it, telling him at length about how difficult and dangerous the task is, to the point that Zeus himself wouldn't be able to do it - it would be impossible for anyone other than Helios himself. But Phaethon insists, and Helios can't go back on his word, so he ''very'' reluctantly lets him do it. With predictable, borderline apocalyptic results.
355* GodOfLight: The god of the sun.
356* GodOfOrder: He was seen as the god of oaths (thanks to his lofty position as the all-seeing sun that witnesses everything) who made sure liars and traitors did not escape justice.
357* LightEmUp: He's the sun god.
358* LightIsGood: The Sun was seen as a giver of life and happiness. Creator/{{Plato}} writes that Helios is the symbolic offspring of the idea of the Good, and Helios is [[DependingOnTheWriter usually]] depicted as helpful and decent in myths compared to most of the other JerkassGods.
359* LightIsNotGood: Not himself (unless pissed off), but his daughters were often witches who had a power called "evil eye", derived from himself; Circe is the most famous one.
360* TheLostLenore: Leucothoe is this for him. Aphrodite made him fall in love with her, leading him to abandon his then-girlfriend Clytie for her. Clytie didn't take it well, and ratted him out to Leucothoe's father, who then had his daughter [[BuriedAlive buried alive]]. Helios tried to revive her, but he was too late, and he turned her lifeless body into a frankincense tree instead so that she would still breathe air in a way, rather than stay hidden from the sunlight beneath the earth.
361* LoveGod: Apparently he has traces of this, as Pindar claimed that lovesick young men would pray to him for help in love matters.
362* MaleSunFemaleMoon: He and Selene are some of the oldest and well-known examples.
363* MeaningfulName: Helios is simply the Greek word for the sun.
364* NightAndDayDuo: With Selene.
365* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He told Hephaestus about the latter's wife Aphrodite's affair with Ares. The goddess has had it out for Helios and his descendants ever since, causing them no shortage of grief and shame through their love lives.
366* OppositesAttract: He and his water nymph lovers. Selene counts too.
367* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Now this naturally happens with all his mortal children, being an immortal god, but it's particularly emphasized in the story of Phaethon, who is killed trying to drive his father's chariot, leaving Helios a sobbing wreck.
368* PapaWolf: Ask Picolous. After the Gigantomachy was won, one of the Gigantes named Picolous attacked Circe and tried to drive her off her island. Helios answered by killing him.
369* PhysicalGod:
370* PrettyBoy: Sometimes characterized as this.
371* PurpleIsPowerful: He is the god of the sun, and according to Ovid dresses in purple.
372* ReallyGetsAround: Like most male gods, he has several lovers.
373* SolarAndLunar: Helios and Selene are this.
374* ShipperOnDeck: Agrees that Hades is the perfect husband for Persephone. Demeter is not amused.
375** Though if we want to get technical, the word he uses in the original Greek translates to "son-in-law" as well, and he's talking more in the sense of Hades being a respectable choice due to his status and power as king of the Underworld and brother of Demeter, rather than a {{Nice Guy}} who will make Persephone happy.
376* SinsOfTheFather: Aphrodite bore a grudge against him for revealing her affair with Ares and seems to have gone out of her way to torment Helios's descendants for it.
377* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Although "Helios" is most commonly used, his name is some times transliterated as Helius, following Latin grammar rules.
378** The speakers of Doric greek would have called him Halios, and those of the Cretan dialect, Abelios.
379* SupernaturalGoldEyes: He has golden, light-emitting eyes he passed down to his descendants.
380* SuperSenses: Can see and hear ''everything''.
381* TheNightThatNeverEnds: When the Gigantomachy began, Zeus ordered Helios, Selene and Eos to stop shining so that [[BigBad Gaia]] would not find a herb that could make the Gigantes immortal. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] since after the fight was over, he resumed his job as before.
382** Also applies when Zeus ordered him not to rise because he wanted to spend extra time with Alcmene, though it was only for three days.
383* TheOneGuy: Has two sisters, but is an only son. Among the day and night deities that were said to cross the sky in their chariots he is also the only male one, as Nyx, Eos and Selene are all female.
384* TheOneThatGotAway: He is this for Clytie.
385* ThePowerOfTheSun: He is ''the'' Sun. Then there's Medea's prayer to him: 'O sire, give me the right to guide thy fire-bearing steeds with the flaming reins; then let Corinth... [[KillItWithFire be consumed by flames]] and bring the two seas together.'
386* TheRival: With Poseidon over Corinth. The Hecatoncheir Briareus was choosen to settle matters, and he awarded the Corinthian isthmus to Poseidon, while Helios got the Acrocorinth.
387* TokenGoodTeammate: A fragment attributed to the lost epic ''Titanomachy'' claims he was the only of the Titans who did not attack Zeus. This is borne out by the fact that he was one of the few titans not to be punished or imprisoned, and he retained his position as the sun god after the Olympian victory.
388* TooDumbToLive: His son, Phaethon, asks to drive the chariot of the sun as proof that he is actually Helios' son. No version of the story ends well.
389* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: From a certain point of view (Circe's, to be exact). His killing of Picolous made the herb moly spring from the giant's blood; years later Odysseus would use moly to gain immunity to Circe's magic, allowing him to retain his human form and force her to free his crewmates. From Odysseus' point of view of course, this was a fortuitous blessing.
390[[/folder]]
391
392[[folder:Leto / Latona]]
393[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leto_with_apollo_and_artemis.jpg]]
394The Titan daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, and sister to Asteria, Leto is quite honestly famous for only one thing: Giving birth to Apollo and Artemis, the children of Zeus. When she got pregnant, she was forced to run for her life from the jealous Queen Hera, who made all the lands of the world shun her. Once her twins are born, she goes back to Olympus and recedes from being prominent. She ''did'' have one more myth associated with her; see below. Her Roman equivalent is '''Latona'''.
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396* ActionGirl: Zigzagged. Though she is sometimes described as being demure, she takes part in the Trojan War. 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.
397* AllLovingHero: At least according to Creator/{{Hesiod}}, who calls her "ever mild, gentle to mortals and immortal gods, mild from the beginning, most kindly within Olympus."
398* AnimalMotifs: Transformed into a shrew mouse hen Typhon attacked Olympus. Several traditions also connect the wolf (fitting for a goddess from Lycia, "wolf land") and the rooster with her.
399* AttemptedRape: Hera sent Tityus to rape her, but Artemis and Apollo slew him.
400* BerserkButton: Please don't brag about your children as being more exceptional than her own. Just ask Niobe.
401* 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. This might count as ValuesDissonance, however, as 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.
402* ParentsInDistress: She was one before she had actually managed to give birth, as Hera made her labour a living hell; one of the very first things Apollo did mere days after being born was to slay Python, the dragon Hera sent to terrorise Leto. Played straight when Tityus tried to rape her, and she called upon Artemis and Apollo to save her.
403* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Leto is seen as a proper lady and the perfect model of demure wife/girlfriend, whereas her daughter Artemis is the goddess of hunting and wild animals.
404* GoodParents: To her children, who accordingly adore her.
405** To Carnus too, a son of Zeus whom she adopted.
406* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She is the gentlest goddess on Olympus, and is described as golden-haired.
407* TheHeart: To her family and Olympus in general.
408* KissingCousins: With Zeus.
409* MamaBear: Insult her children, prepare to see your own children get offed.
410* MotherGoddess: Was worshipped as one, especially in Lycia.
411* NiceGirl: The most caring goddess of the pantheon.
412* PhysicalGod
413* PregnantBadass: Hera threw everything she could at her to keep her from giving birth, including a freaking ''dragon''. None of them worked.
414* ProperLady: The myths paint her as this.
415* RevengeByProxy: Ordered the killing of Niobe's fourteen children because the latter had insulted her own. Not killed, ''insulted''.
416* SacredHospitality: When she took her newborn twins to Lycia and tried to drink from a fountain, the peasants there prevented her by stirring the mud at the bottom. Leto turned them all into frogs for being terrible hosts.
417* SatelliteCharacter: She doesn't have much in the way of divine traits aside from being Apollo and Artemis's mom and was usually worshipped as an ancillary to worship of her children. Greek gods tended to have myths where they punished mortals for claiming to be better than a god at the gods' specialty (i.e. Agamemnon saying he was a better hunter than Artemis, Arachne saying she was a better weaver than Athena), and Niobe's act of hubris against Leto was to boast about how she was a better mother because she gave birth to more kids.
418* SingleTargetSexuality: Never had another lover after Zeus.
419* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Leto is the Attic and Ionic spelling of her name; those speaking Doric Greek would have known her as Lato.
420* TeamMom: Of the Delian triad, literally too as she ''is'' their mother.
421* WeUsedToBeFriends: According to Sappho, Leto and Niobe were the best of friends at first.
422[[/folder]]
423
424[[folder:Metis]]
425A 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 it is said that she was the source of his wisdom.
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427* AmicableExes: She continues to counsel Zeus from inside his head, despite him swallowing her and tricking her into transforming into a fly.
428* AndIMustScream: After Zeus swallowed her, she spent the rest of her life inside of him. She's a titan, which makes her immortal. You do the math.
429* BadassBookworm: One of the most scholarly Titans, and the one who helped Zeus get the drop of Cronos.
430* DroppedABridgeOnHer: She didn't die, but she still suffered a pretty undignified fate.
431* EatenAlive: Her ultimate fate.
432* FusionDance: Some interpretations of her ultimate fate lean towards this - since she can't die inside Zeus she ends up subsumed completely and becomes part of him, with Zeus becoming wiser as a result.
433* {{Irony}}: Two sets of it. Firstly, Metis was swallowed by Zeus the same way that Zeus's siblings (whom she helped rescue) were swallowed by Cronos.
434* JustEatGilligan: How Zeus dealt with her potentially dangerous (for him) pregnancy. Literally.
435* MasterPoisoner: She is a master of mixing potions and whips something up for Cronos, whether this was a poison to make him vomit up the other gods, or put him asleep to let Zeus cut him open depends on the author.
436* TheConfidant: She was Zeus’s Gal-Friday.
437* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In some versions, Zeus tricked her into turning into a fly, which he ate. In others he just swallowed her in her regular form.
438[[/folder]]
439
440[[folder:Menoetius]]
441Brother to Prometheus and Atlas, and son of Iapetus. His one claim to fame is that Zeus kicked his butt during the war with the Titans and banished him down to Tartarus.
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443* PhysicalGod
444* CurbStompBattle: His only claim to fame is getting one-shotted by Zeus and booted into the underworld in short order.
445* FlatCharacter: He's a brother titan to Prometheus and Atlas, and Zeus kicks his ass. That's literally it. Oh, and his name means "doomed might", which is basically that last sentence condensed.
446[[/folder]]
447
448
449[[folder:Pallas]]
450A Titan god associated with war, possibly making him Ares' predecessor. He was the son of Crius and Eurybia, the brother of Astraeus and Perses, and the husband of Styx. Was actually killed by Athena in the war of the Gigantes. Became conflated with Athena in later years, to the point that in Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's The Raven, a bust of Athena is identified as "Pallas".
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452* KissingCousins: His wife Styx is his first cousin.
453* OneSteveLimit: Triton has a daughter named Pallas which leads to...
454** DependingOnTheWriter: Is he mortal? Is he Athena's friend, parent, foster parent? Both of them have some role in Athena's life but who gets what and what degree varies drastically.
455* PhysicalGod
456[[/folder]]
457
458[[folder:Perses]]
459Son of the Titans Kreios and Eurybia, and the titan god of destruction. Was wed to Asteria and had their child Hekate together.
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461* FlatCharacter: His daughter has entire books on herself and even his wife is more notable in mythology. His one claim to fame is having Hekate.
462* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: His name means "destroyer."
463* PhysicalGod
464[[/folder]]
465
466[[folder:Prometheus]]
467[[quoteright:186:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prometheus_staatliche_museen_zu_berlin_vase_350_bc.png]]
468Son of Iapetus, brother to [[TheDitz Epimetheus]], [[BarrierMaiden Atlas]], and [[TheBrute Menoetius]], this deity is a hardcore fan of humanity and proud of it. He was one of the original Titans who was neutral during the war between the Titans and Olympians (or, [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on which source you look at]], sided with Zeus simply because he foresaw he'd win). Instead, his sympathies were with [[PunyEarthlings man]]. In fact, according to some stories, he created mankind (with possibly Epimetheus) and refused to accept that humans were inferior to gods. He tricked Zeus into accepting the uneatable parts of animals as sacrifices for eternity, leaving the meat to the humans. He is also the one who gave Fire to the mortals after he stole it from Olympus. He also saved his son Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha from a [[TheGreatFlood flood]] sent by Zeus to wipe out humanity, warning them of the events to come. Said son helped to renew humanity and became the first ruler of Greece. Zeus wasn't very happy with that, so he sent to Epimetheus Pandora. Despite the warnings of Prometheus, Epimetheus accepted her as a wife, and Pandora unleashed on Earth all the woes we know today. One day Prometheus stole fire from the gods with ([[DependingOnTheWriter maybe]]) Athena's assistance and gave it to man. For his troubles, he was ChainedToARock and tortured for centuries...until he was freed by the [[HalfHumanHybrid demigod]] Herakles.
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470* AdaptationalHeroism: The Ancient Greeks likely held Prometheus in a far dimmer light than the heroic martyr he eventually became seen as. Prometheus first appears in the works of Hesiod, who speaks contemptuously of him as a lowly, self righteous trickster and asserts that he was rightly punished for defying Zeus and that humanity would be living far more prosperously had he not directed Zeus's ire at us... albeit that Hesiod never actually explains how humanity would have been better off if they had to sacrifice a good chunk of their food instead of just bones and fat and couldn't make fire.
471* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: He and Epimetheus are twin titans of foresight and hindsight, and often portrayed as identical in artwork.
472* AndIMustScream: Probably the UrExample; his punishment was not only being ChainedToARock; he had an eagle eating out his liver every day and, every night, his liver would regenerate and the process would repeat. Although he was freed eventually thanks to Herakles.
473* BadassInDistress: During his punishment.
474* BadassPacifist: He didn't fight during the war against Titans and gods, and he challenged Zeus many times with only words and tricks.
475* BigBrotherInstinct: Slight subversion in that they are twins, but Prometheus is definitely the more responsible of the two, and as such very protective of Epimetheus.
476* ChainedByFashion: Some stories say that even after Herakles freed him, Zeus declared that his sentence was permanent, thus Prometheus would always wear a wreath and a ring of his chain. Men, in turn, began to wear rings and wreaths in tribute to him.
477* ChainedToARock: Of course.
478* TheChampion: Hasn't been called the champion of humanity for nothing.
479** He tricked Zeus into accepting only the bones and fat of animals as sacrifices so humans can keep the meat and don't starve.
480** He saved his son Deucalion from TheGreatFlood, allowing humanity to be reborn thanks to the latter and his wife Pyrrha.
481** Most famously, he stole fire. According to Aechylus, he also gave humanity art, science, and [[HopeBringer hope]].
482* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: He's chained to the Caucasus, and every day, a bird ate his liver. Bonus points for recognizing the liver's regeneration capability.
483* DeadpanSnarker: DependingOnTheWriter of course, but he's often depicted as one.
484* {{Determinator}}: In at least one version of the tale, Zeus had him tortured because he wanted Prometheus to tell him which of his children would overthrow him so he could prevent it. Prometheus, knowing that if he told, mankind would forever suffer under the yoke of the gods, held silent for millenia of suffering.
485* TheDiscoveryOfFire: He stole fire from the gods to give to the humans, introducing them to fire.
486* DisproportionateRetribution: He had one of the cruelest fates inflicted by the gods...because he shared knowledge with mankind? Harsh.
487* EarnYourHappyEnding: After centuries of suffering, he was freed by Herakles.
488* TheGadfly: He certainly annoyed Zeus well enough for such a DisproportionateRetribution to happen.
489* GodOfGood: He's one of the few deities in Greek Mythology who never hurt anyone (''sans'' Zeus's pride). That, and he willingly sacrificed himself for mankind.
490* GuileHero: Unlike most of the Titans, Prometheus would rather use brains over brawn.
491* HeroicSacrifice: Prometheus willingly gave mankind fire and enabled civilization to start developing, knowing full well the consequences he would suffer once Zeus got his hands on him.
492* HumansAreSpecial: Prometheus certainly thinks so.
493* IconicItem: While Zeus pardoned Prometheus and allowed Heracles to free him, Prometheus still had to symbolically show his bondage. Prometheus was required to always wear a laurel crown and a ring crafted from his chains. Mortal humans in turn started wearing these things to honor him.
494* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Several ancient authors included this in his torment.
495* InformationWantsToBeFree: He stole the secret of making fire from the gods and gave it to humanity.
496* TheMaker: He created mankind with Epimetheus.
497* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: The only god who would unfailingly put humanity before himself.
498* MeaningfulName: His name means "Forethought".
499* MessianicArchetype: Gave humanity an invaluable blessing at great personal cost. [[ChainedToARock His fate]] even resembles crucifixion. [[AndIMustScream Unfortunately he couldn't die.]]
500* MoralPragmatist: Prometheus didn’t so much turn on Cronus for being an evil bastard, as much as he just knew he was going to lose against Zeus.
501* MultipleChoicePast: The son of Iapetus by either Clymene or Asia. Aeschylus makes him a son of Themis by an unnamed father, and a Hellenistic poet wrote that he was conceived when a Giant named Eurymedon [[RapeAsDrama raped]] a young Hera.
502* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Obviously.
503* NiceGuy: Probably the only Greek deity to be capable of embodying this trope, he is by far one of the most selfless deities in classic mythology and [[IncorruptiblePurePureness doesn't quit being a nice guy]] despite the horrible punishments he endures because of his kind actions
504* PapaWolf: The creator of mankind always stood for humans against the most powerful god, no matter how gritty the consequences were for him. He also saved his own son Deucalion from TheGreatFlood.
505* PhysicalGod
506* PolarOppositeTwins: Intellectually, where Epimetheus is so a nostalgic introvert, Prometheus is a progressive extrovert.
507* RedemptionEqualsLife: Some sources claim that Prometheus prophesied that Zeus would make a critical mistake that would cause him to fall the way Cronus fell and only Prometheus could prevent it. This is said to be one reason why Zeus eventually relented and allowed Herakles to free Prometheus. Prometheus would eventually make good on his word by warning Zeus not to woo the sea-nymph Thetis since any son she bore would be stronger than his father. This probably saved Zeus's throne.
508* {{Seers}}: In some myths, he's able to see the future and the past, including his own, so you should take his advice at heart.
509* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He really hates the hierarchy between humans and gods.
510* TheTrickster: He stole the fire from the gods and tricked Zeus many times.
511* UndyingLoyalty: Although he couldn't really help the undying part, he never, ever regretted his HeroicSacrifice.
512* WeUsedToBeFriends: He sided with Zeus during the Titanomachy. When Zeus tried to rule over humans and ended the GoldenAge, though...
513[[/folder]]
514
515[[folder:Selene / Luna]]
516!!Σελήνη | Lūna | ☾
517[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/diana_selene_da_originale_ellenistico_da_porta_s_sebastiano_02.JPG]]
518The Titan goddess of the Moon, known as '''Luna''' in the Roman pantheon. Specifically, she is the goddess who drives the chariot of the moon across the sky. Sister of Helios and Eos (all offspring of Hyperion) and the most well-known of the three, if only because her name makes for an elegant allusion and looks very French (the "e" at the end is not silent).
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520* ActionGirl: According to Nonnus' ''Dionysiaca'', she fought against the freaking [[EldritchAbomination Typhon]], which is why the Moon has craters. Badass indeed.
521** She also appears in the Pergamon Altar fighting against the Giants during the Gigantomachy.
522* AnimalMotifs: She is associated with bulls and mules.
523* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Unlike Artemis and Hecate, Selene is ''literally'' the [[UsefulNotes/TheMoon Moon]] itself. This is reflected in her names: Selene and Luna are the Greek and Latin words for "moon".
524* AWolfInSheepsClothing: Or rather satyr. This is how Pan seduced her; by wrapping himself in sheep skin, perhaps to hide his goat legs or to get close to her without Selene noticing him.
525* BerserkButton: Don't compare yourself to her. Ampelus, who was given a bull to drive like her own, found out the hard way. She sent a gadfly to sting the bull, and then bull ended up goring him to death.
526* BrotherSisterIncest: Gave birth to the Horai, or the four seasons, with Helios.
527* ChariotPulledByCats: Her chariot is sometimes pulled by two horses like Helios' own, but in other writings it's two white bulls instead, or she even rides a mule.
528* ClingyJealousGirl: According to a little-known tradition, a girl named Myia fell in love with Endymion and would wake him up with her endless chatter, annoying him and enraging Selene, so she turned Myia into a fly.
529* CoolCar: Her lunar chariot.
530* DefaceOfTheMoon: The moon got its craters[[note]]Actually its "maria" (the dark patches that can be seen on it with the naked eye), as craters need a telescope to be seen but why to spoil this?[[/note]] during her battle with Typhon (or from rocks Typhon threw at Zeus, who dodged).
531* DudeShesLikeInAComa: She had fifty daughters with Endymion after he was put into an eternal slumber.
532** Though to be fair, while he was put in sleep indeed, it's not specified that he was asleep when they had their daughters.
533* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Often depicted as such.
534* GodOfTheMoon: She was the personification of the Moon itself. Mirroring her brother, the sun god Helios, she was described as driving a shining chariot across the sky every night, representing the movement of the Moon. Even today, her name is the Greek word for the Moon, while Luna's name is the basis for most moon-related terminology.
535* TheHecateSisters: In some parts of Greece she came to became part of a trinity like this, seen as a triple goddess who is "Selene in Heaven, Artemis on Earth and Hecate in the Underworld"
536* HornedHumanoid: She is often depicted with horns, representative of her moon-rays or the crescent moon.
537* IcyGrayEyes: Several authors write she has silvery grey eyes, the same way Athena is often described.
538* KissingCousins: With Zeus, to whom she bore two or three daughters.
539* LoveGoddess: [[ZigZaggedTrope Kinda]]. Pindar wrote that lovesick young women would pray to Selene to help them.
540* {{Lunacy}}: The TropeNamer - the Romans thought epilepsy as well as madness was caused by the moon. On the other side of the coin, a full moon was thought to cause easier childbirths (quite a desirable claim considering the risks of childbirth even today, let alone in ancient times). Naturally, this makes the moon quite a femininity symbol by the Greeks' reckoning since childbirth is of course one of the most feminine actions ever.
541* MaleSunFemaleMoon: She and Helios are some of the oldest and well-known examples.
542* MayflyDecemberRomance: Attempted to avert this with Endymion.
543* MeaningfulName: Her name is of course the Greek word for the moon, and literally translates to "luminous one."
544* MsFanservice: Ancient Greeks and Romans didn't shy from depicting her bare-breasted.
545* MultipleChoicePast: She is usually said to be the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, but in some rare traditions she is the daughter of Pallas, or even Helios himself. Shares this with her sister Eos.
546* NightAndDayDuo: With Helios.
547* NosyNeighbor: One myth mentions that she's a busybody who spies on people at night.
548%%* PhysicalGod
549* ReallyGetsAround: She is famous for her love for Endymion, but he was far from being her only lover. She also had adventures with Zeus, Helios, Pan, and a mortal man named Eumolpus.
550* SiblingYinYang: With both her siblings, Helios and Eos, who are daylight deities, while she is a nocturnal goddess associated with the moon. ''Literally'' night and day duo.
551* SingleTargetSexuality: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] actually. She's mostly known for her love for Endymion, and while he ''was'' her greatest romance, he was not the only man she was interested in.
552* SolarAndLunar: Selene and Helios are this.
553* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In Doric and Aeolic Greek her name is spelled Selana and Selanna respectively.
554* StealthPun: Her affair with Pan. Pan ("all") x Selene ("moon") = full moon (panselenos).
555* TrulySingleParent: Some myths mention that she gave birth to the Nemean Lion. (Some say Hera did instead).
556* WingedHumanoid: Sometimes depicted with wings.
557[[/folder]]
558
559[[folder:Styx]]
560No, not the river in the Underworld; the Titan goddess, mother of Zelus, Nike, Kratos ([[VideoGame/GodOfWar not that Kratos]]), and Bia, husband of Pallas, and daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. During the Titanomachy, she sided with and came to Zeus's aide, being one of the first to do so. For this, her name became a binding oath for the gods.
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562* HeelFaceTurn: Joined Zeus to overthrow the Titans.
563* JumpedAtTheCall: She was the first Titan to switch sides and help overthrow the Titanomachy.
564[[/folder]]
565
566!!Titan groups
567
568[[folder:The Oceanids]]
569The 3,000 daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. While their brothers, the Potamoi, personified only rivers, the Oceanid were the patronesses of more varied bodies of water, including seas, lakes, springs, and clouds. Also, while the Potamoi have inhuman appearances, the Oceanid were shown as [[CuteMonsterGirl beautiful women]]; they are nymphs after all, in addition to being goddesses. This characteristic is apparently noticed by the gods and Titans too since not few of them decided to choose some of the Oceanid as their spouses, and they sired gods or other nymphs, some of them very important.
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571* 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 and goddesses (the Oceanid Pleione gave birth to Maia, who gave birth to the Olympian Hermes).
572* HotConsort: Three Oceanids became the wives of the original male Olympians--Metis for Zeus, Leuce for Hades and Amphitrite for Poseidon, though Zeus and Hades' marriages didn't last.
573** Eurynome was another Oceanid that became one of Zeus' early wives.
574** Dione, who is an Oceanid in some versions, was Zeus' consort in Epirus.
575** Doris became the wife of the sea-god Nereus.
576** Perse married Helios.
577** Pleione, the wife of Atlas.
578** Idyia to King Aeetes of Colchis.
579* TheLostLenore: One Oceanid, Leuce, was this for Hades--she was his first wife before Persephone and she passed away during her and Hades' marriage. Hades comemmorated her by turning her into a white poplar tree, which is said to stand eternally in the Elysian Fields.
580* MakingASplash
581* MassiveNumberedSiblings: 3,000 in total. And all of them are very beautiful.
582** And Doris in turn had fifty daughters (the Nereids) of her own.
583* NatureSpirit
584* PhysicalGod
585[[/folder]]
586
587[[folder:The Potamoi]]
588The 3,000 sons of Oceanus and Tethys, and the fathers of Naiads, these groups of gods were the river gods of Greek Mythology, depicted in three forms: a man-headed bull, a bull-headed man with the body of a serpent-like fish from the waist down, and a man with an arm resting on an amphora jug pouring water.
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590* BerserkButton: The potamoi Scamander was enraged when Achilles started clogging his river with the [[OneManArmy corpses of all the Trojans he was killing]], and would have killed Achilles himself if not for the intervention of several stronger gods.
591* FlatCharacter: Inevitable given that there are thousands of them. A good hundred of them, though, are named in a list and even fewer get their own myths.
592* MakingASplash
593* MassiveNumberedSiblings: There are ''3,000'' of them! And this is not counting the fact that they also have 3,000 sisters, the Oceanids, which mean that all of them number ''6,000''. Oceanus and Tethys must have loved each other very much for that to happen.
594* NatureSpirit
595[[/folder]]

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