CLAS104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cronus, Typhon, Hekatonkheires

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

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When zeus had grown to maturity he tricked cronus into throwing up all his brothers and sisters. Zeus then waged war against his father cronus with his brothers and sisters as allies: He allied himself with the hecatonchires and the cyclopes, for he had released them from the depths of the earth were their father ouranos had imprisoned them. On the other side, allied with cronus were the titans, with the important exception of. Prometheus , his brother epimetheus, and their mother themis (in hesiod"s version. Atlas, brother of prometheus and epimetheus, was an important leader on the side of cronus. The battle between these two is known as the titanomachy, it lasted ten long years, the zeus fighting from mt. After winning the war, zeus imprisoned the titans in tartarus and gave the hecatonchires the task of guarding them. Atlas was punished with the task of holding up the sky.