CLAA06H3 Chapter 3-4: Week 2 Readings
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The titanomachy: zeus defeats his father, cronus. Was enchanted to bring up everything that he swallowed including the stone and his children. Cronus had his group of titans by his side: titans were the older gods who preceded the olympians and were the children of uranus (heaven) and gaia (earth, however themis and her son prometheus allied with zeus. Brother of prometheus was an important leader on. Zeus fought from mt. olympus and cronus from mt. The gigantomachy: zeus defeats the giants and typhoeus. Giants aka gegeneis (earthborn)were born from the blood of. The battle between the giants and the new gods ended with the giants being imprisoned under the earth in volcanic regions. The most vicious monster the opposed zeus was typhoeus (a dragon) who joins the other side to fight the gods or fights wih them alone. Zeus with all his power and might jumped down from olympus and struck the monster shaking tartarus (a place)
