CLA204H1 Chapter 4: The creation of mortals
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Chapter 4 - zeus" rise to power: the creation of mortals. When zeus has grown into maturity, cronus decided to bring up all the children that he had swallowed. Zeus then waged war against his father with his siblings as allies. Hecatonchires and the cyclopes for he had released them from the depths of the earth where their father uranus had imprisoned them. Allied with cronus were the titans with the exception of themis (clymene) and her son prometheus. Prometheus was an important leader on the side of cronus. The struggle is said to have lasted ten years. In the end, cronus was conquered and the hecatochires guarded the titans imprisoned in. Atlas was punished with the task of holding up the sky. The gigantomachy: zeus defeats the giants and typhoeus. The fight ended with the imprisonment of the giants under the earth. One of the most vicious of the monsters who opposed zeus was the dragon.
