CXXII: The Troubling Titan Timeline and Terrible Titanomachy
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold
Liv Albert
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🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The story of the Titans, the first race of gods in Greek mythology, and the war between those Titans and the new race of gods, the Olympians.
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Sources: Hesiod's Theogony, translations by Hugh Evelyn-White and Richard Lattimore; Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology, translated by Robin Hard; various Titan/Titaness entries on Theoi.com.
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| 0:30.0 | Oh hi, hello, welcome, this is Let's Talk About Myths Baby, and I am your host, Liv. |
| 0:40.8 | As I mentioned last week, today we are diving into the epic story of the titanomaki, |
| 0:46.6 | the war of the titans. |
| 0:48.6 | But not just that, along with the war itself, we're going to cover as much about the actual |
| 0:53.3 | titans as we can. |
| 0:56.6 | The titans are a funny group, and one that I think a lot of you are particularly interested |
| 1:00.6 | in. |
| 1:01.6 | They're fascinating overall, given the general understanding of them is that they |
| 1:05.6 | did rule at one point, were overthrown by Zeus and his siblings, along with a couple |
| 1:10.4 | of the titans themselves, and then were relegated to various forms of lesser importance, |
| 1:16.8 | some locked away, others just lesser gods, than they've once been considered. |
| 1:22.2 | At the same time, did the ancient Greeks themselves believe at any point that they were |
| 1:26.6 | ruled by Chronos as a king of the gods, or did they always understand it as something |
| 1:31.3 | that took place in the past, before humanity? |
| 1:34.3 | There's probably scholarship about this, but it's just something I've thought about |
| 1:37.8 | in the moment, frankly, so I haven't dug into it. |
| 1:42.6 | But before we get into the titans as gods, before the gods, some fun news about some |
| 1:47.8 | upcoming episodes. |
| 1:49.3 | As I've mentioned, this coming Friday won't be another Argonautica quite yet, but instead |
| 1:53.9 | a conversation with Jennifer St. author of the upcoming novel Ariadne, as you might |
| 1:59.8 | imagine, it's about Ariadne. |
| 2:01.9 | It's an amazing retelling, and we have a great conversation about the book and mythology |
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