Titan Punishments?

Isis

Member
After reading this thread, I remember why I always thought Zeus was a jack***. The guy just goes around raping women (even his own daughter) and punishing people who dare to defy him.
 

Alejandro

Active Member
I can't remember them help please?
Kronos- For being.. er ... a bad dad- Chopped to peices by children
(Nice kids)
Atlas- For assisting Kronos in fighting the gods- Made to hold up the sky
(Uh heavy)
Prometheus- For giving fire to humans- Chained to rock and get insides eaten daily. (Tasty?)
Epimetheus-
Oceanus-
Iapetus-
Hyperion-
Rhea-
Kronos was never chopped into pieces; like his eldest children, he was immortal and more than less indestructible. (The only immortal in Greek mythology of whom there is mention of his being carded and diced to death is the enigmatic Orphic god Zagreus, an ancient version of Dionysos.) Like most of the Titans and gods who sided with Kronos in Titanomakhia (the "Titans' War"), he was cast into Tartaros, the cosmic storm-wracked hell-pit which lay as far beneath the lowest part of the Underworld as the Sky was above the surface of the Earth. And even then, by that the time that Homeros was writing the Iliad and Hesiodos the Theogoneia, it was imagined that Zeus nevertheless had some level of reverence for his Titanic father and uncles whom he had imprisoned in the Abyss. The great Oath that the gods were not allowed to break without the severest of consequences, the one sworn by the name of the Underworld River Styx, was officiated by the swearing deity's outpouring of a vial of Styx-water as a libation to the infernal divinities, the gods under the Earth, i.e., in the pit of Tartaros. These were basically Kronos and the other ancient Titans who were locked therein. This respect that Zeus showed his father and uncles even in their imprisonment perhaps explains the fact that, after the end of the Age of Heroes, which marks the tail-end of all the epic Greek mythology, Zeus is believed to have extended amnesty to Kronos and his Titan brothers, who were all then released from Tartaros and given dominion over the home of the blessed dead in Elysium, the so-called Isles of the Blessed. Kronos was at this time crowned king of Elysium.

And of course Rhea was never punished for being a loving mother who rescued her son Zeus from a fate worse than death at his father's hands! She was, throughout Zeus' reign, worshipped and renowned as the Great Metros Theon, "Mother of the Gods." She was not as powerful or as prominent as the major Olympian deities but she certainly had her place of honour among them, with her own train of deities and daimones just like most of the gods in the pantheon. The eldest female Titans all acquired places of honour, like their sister Rhea, as goddesses of Olympos, and two of them, Themis and Mnemosyne, were eventually best known for giving birth to the daughters of their own nephew Zeus. They remained unpunished probably because there was nothing for which to punish them. Like their eldest brother Okeanos (Oceanus), they most likely abstained from taking a side in the war between their brother Kronos and their nephew Zeus. One female participant in the war who sided with Kronos and consequently suffered greatly, like her male cohorts, was the swift-winged Arke, a sister of the rainbow-goddess Iris. While Iris became the herald of Hera on Zeus' side in the war, Arke became the messenger of the Titans, and after the latter were defeated, Arke's wings were torn off and she was cast into Tartaros together with her Titanic uncles.

Together with Kronos, Hyperion and Iapetos, who you've mentioned, their brothers Kreios and Koios were also cast into Tartaros. Zeus seems to have had it in for the sons of Iapetos, though, since they each receive a unique punishment, which could be argued as better or worse than that of the rest of the Titans. The punishments of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus have been discussed extensively above, but they had a brother Menoitios, the only Titan (or one of very few Titans) ever named as having been killed. Zeus blasted him dead with a thunderbolt during Titanomakhia and then cast his corpse into Tartaros. Kreios' sons Pallas and Perses also seem to have ended up in the Abyss together with their father and uncles, for the same reason as they.

In the Orphic creation myth, Mt Olympos and the universe were once ruled by the Titans Ophion and Eurynome until Kronos and Rhea ascended the mountain and overthrew them. Kronos cast Ophion, who might be the same as Okeanos, into the sea or the Okeanos River, while Rhea threw Eurynome into the Okeanos or into Tartaros. If this Eurynome is the same as the daughter of Okeanos, she must eventually have escaped from Tartaros, as she later became one of Zeus' six wives before Hera, and was the mother by him of the three Kharites (Charites).
 
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