Uranides
Along with the four Iapetionides the twelve Uranides were the most important of the Titan gods.
Cronus, a son of Uranus and Ge, and the youngest among the Titans. He was married to Rhea, by whom he became the father of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Cheiron is also called a son of Cronus.
At the instigation of his mother, Cronus unmanned his father for having thrown the Cyclopes, who were likewise his children by Ge, into Tartarus. Out of the blood thus shed sprang up the Erinnyes.
Oceanus, the god of the river Oceanus, by which, according to the most ancient notions of the Greeks, the whole earth was surrounded.
Iapetusa son of Uranus and Geia. According to Apollodorus he married Asia, the daughter of his brother Oceanus, and became by her the father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius, who was slain by Zeus in the war against the Titans, and shut up in Tartarus.
Hyperion. God of the Sun, married to his sister Theia, or Euryphaessa, by whom he became the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos.
Crius. Married his half-sister Eurybia, daughter of Gaea and Pontus, and became father of Perses, Pallas and Astraeus.
Coeus. God of intellect. He married his sister Phoebe, became the father of Leto and Asteria.
Rhea. She became by Cronos the mother of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Aides, Poseidon, and Zeus. According to some accounts Cronos and Rhea were preceded in their sovereignty over the world by Ophion and Eurynome but Ophion was overpowered by Cronos, and Rhea cast Eurynome into Tartarus.
Tethys. The sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. She was mother of the chief rivers of the universe, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids.
Theia, became by Hyperion the mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene, that is, she was regarded as the deity from which all light proceeded.
Phoebe, became by Coeus the mother of Asteria and Leto. According to Aeschylus she was in possession of the Delphic oracle after Themis, and prior to Apollo.
Themis. A daughter of Uranus, others say Helios, and Ge, was married to Zeus, by whom she became the mother of the Horae, Eunomia, Dice (Astraea), Eirene, and the Moerae.
In the Homeric poems, Themis is the personification of the order of things established by law, custom, and equity, whence she is described as reigning in the assemblies of men (Od. ii. 68), and as convening, by the command of Zeus, the assembly of the gods.
She dwells in Olympus, and is on friendly terms with Hera.
Mnemosyne, the personification of memory. This titaness was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus and the mother of the Muses by Zeus.
In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses.
Zeus lay with Mnemosyne for nine consecutive nights and thereby created the nine muses.
Iapetionides. The Second Generation Of Titans
Atlas according to Hesiod (Theogony of Hesiod 507), a son of Japetus and Clymene, and a brother of Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. According to Apollodorus his mother's name was Asia and, according to Hyginus, he was a son of Aether and Gaia.
Prometheus is sometimes called a Titan, though in reality he did not belong to the Titans, but was only a son of the Titan Japetus.
His name signifies "forethought," as that of his brother Epimetheus denotes "afterthought." Others call Prometheus a son of Themis, or of Uranus and Clymene, or of the Titan Eurymedon and Hera.
By Pandora, Hesione, or Axiothea, he is said to have been the father of Deucalion, by Pyrrha or Clymene he begot Hellen and according to some also Deucalion, and by Celaeno he was the father of Lycus and Chimareus while Herodotus calls his wife Asia.
Epimetheus. The Titan of afterthought was the son of Iapetus by the Oceanid Clymene or Asia. Brother of Prometheus, Menoetius and Atlas. Epimetheus, the father of Pyrrha, married Pandora, the first mortal woman.
Menoetius. A son of Japetus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus, was killed by Zeus with a flash of lightning, in the fight of the Titans, and thrown into Tartarus.
