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Bookmark or Share- Greek Titans - MythopediaThe Titans were the first children of the primordial Greek deities Uranus and Gaia. Two of these Titans, Cronus and Rhea, became the parents of the original generation of Olympians, who overthrew the Titans, just as the Titans had overthrown Uranus before them.
- Zeus - MythopediaRhea presents Cronus the stone wrapped in cloth, woodcut engraving from The Olympus or the Mythology of the Greeks and Romans by August Heinrich Petiscus (1878). Wikimedia Commons Public Domain. There are different versions of Zeus’ infancy.
- Persephone – MythopediaThe Orphic version of Persephone, on the other hand, was a daughter of Zeus and Rhea, while an Arcadian version of Persephone called Despoina was the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon. The so-called “Persephone Krater,” an Apulian red-figure volute-krater by the Circle of the Darius Painter (ca. 340 BCE). Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany.
- Amalthea – MythopediaAmalthea was the name of either the nymph or goat (there were different versions) who nursed Zeus when he was a baby. In some accounts, Zeus honored Amalthea after her death by placing her among the stars as a constellation; in others, he celebrated her by placing her skin over his shield, the aegis.
- Rhea – MythopediaRhea or Rheia)—and the one endorsed by Plato in Cratylus—claimed that “Rhea” was a feminine form of the ancient Greek verb rheō, meaning “flow,” “discharge,” or “stream.” Modern scholars have also suggested possible connections with the Greek words rheia or rhea (“easily”), era (“earth”), and oros (“mountain”).
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