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Classical Mythology
(or Percy Jackson’s Family History)

Week 2

• Day 1: The Lesser Gods, Part 1: Helius and his sisters
• Day 2: The Lesser Gods, Part 2: Hecate and Styx
• Day 3: The Lesser Gods, Part 3: Pan
• Day 4: The Lesser Gods, Part 4: Asclepius
• Day 5: Weeks 1 and 2 Review

Day 1

Now that you are familiar with the major players on Mount Olympus, it’s time for you to meet some of the minor players, other gods with lesser powers, most of whom pre-dated the Olympians.

The story of today’s deities picks up where we left off back on Week 1, Day 2. Recall the following from that lesson:

The twelve Titan offspring of Sky and Earth were as follows:

Daughters:

• Theia (a goddess of light)
• Rhea (an earth goddess and eventually the mother of the Olympian Gods)
• Themis (another earth goddess like her mother and sister, Rhea)
• Mnemosyne (Memory)
• Phoebe (a moon goddess)
• Tethys (the most ancient goddess of the sea)

Sons:

• Oceanus (the first born of the Titans; the god of the River Oceanus, a freshwater river that circled the whole Earth and was the source of all of Earth’s fresh water; the river itself)
• Coeus (Query)
• Crius (Ram)
• Hyperion (a god of light)
• Iapetus (Spear Wound)
• Cronus (the youngest of the Titans; Time)

Also from the Week 1, Day 2 lesson:

More than anything, Sky desired power, and so afraid was he of losing that power that he tried to get rid of the Titans as he had the Giants and Cyclopes. Whenever a Titan was born, Sky would immediately thrust the child back into the darkness of Earth’s womb. By the twelfth time this happened, Mother Earth had had enough, and her maternal instincts kicked in. Along with her children, Earth devised a plan to punish Sky, but none of the children volunteered to execute the plan except Cronus. So Cronus waited until the time that he could act, and when he did, he castrated Sky with an iron sickle. Sky then vowed to someday avenge the act and warned Cronus that his own children would someday rise against him, too.

So now the Titans were free with Cronus as their king, and they freed their siblings, the Giants and the Cyclopes, as well. The freedom of the six latter siblings was short lived, however, as Cronus soon sent them back to Tartarus when he feared they would rise up against him.

Now freed, the Titan siblings began to pair up. For example, Theia and Hyperion (both light deities) married and produced a son, Helius (Sun), and two daughters, Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) . . .

(end of review section)