ABSTRACT
In considering the families of the Titans, we will exclude for the present the Titans who were the ancestors of the Olympian gods, and also those who became wives or mistresses of Zeus. If Kronos and Rhea, the founders of the main Olympian line, and Koios and Phoibe, the grandparents of Apollo and Artemis, are therefore put aside along with Themis and Mnemosyne, who will both enter into liaisons with Zeus, we are left with four Titan families whose members will consist mainly of deities who are connected with the natural world and its ordering. Two of these families are founded by Titan couples, namely Okeanos and Tethys, and Hyperion and Theia, while the two others are founded by male Titans who wed outside the circle of their sisters, namely Iapetos, who married his Okeanid niece Klymene, and Kreios, who married into the other family of Gaia by taking Eurybia, daughter of Pontos, as his wife. For a survey of the origins of the Olympian gods, see p. 80; and for the children of the Titans Themis and Mnemosyne, see p. 78.
