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Titanomachy: how did Zeus defeat the Titans?

Ten years of cosmic war: the children overthrow their fathers to found Olympus.

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Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction

The Titanomachy is the first war of Greek mythology. For ten years it pits the Titans, the older generation of gods, against the Olympians led by the young Zeus.

It is not only a family quarrel. It is the move from a world of brute force to a world of order and law. Zeus's victory settles forever who rules the sky, the sea and the dead.

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  1. 2Cronus devours, Zeus rebels
  2. 3Thunderbolt, trident and a hundred arms
  3. 4Sharing out the sky, the sea and the dead
  4. 5From the Titans to titanium, and on to the atlas
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