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 | | The Titans preceded the Twelve Olympians, but were eventually overthrown by them, led by Zeus, in the Titanomachy ("War of the Titans"), and many of them were imprisoned in Tartarus, the depths of the underworld. |
 | | In Hesiod 's Theogony the twelve Titans follow the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes as children of Uranus (mythology), heaven, and Gaia (mythology), the Earth: :"Afterwards she lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea (mythology), Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. |
 | | After them was born Cronus the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire." Uranus considered Cronos monstrous, and imprisoned him in the bowels of the Earth. |
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