[55] in I/T Delivery
coeus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Fri May 9 14:56:03 1997
To: delivery@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 14:55:40 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
[following up on our discussion this morning]
Who is Coeus?
1. One of the Titans
"In Greek mythology, any of the children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea
(Earth) and their descendants. According to Hesiod's Theogony, there
were 12 original Titans: the brothers Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion,
Iapetus, and Cronus and the sisters Thea, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne,
Phoebe, and Tethys. At the instigation of Gaea the Titans rebelled
against their father, who had shut them up in the underworld
(Tartarus). Under the leadership of Cronus they deposed Uranus and set
up Cronus as their ruler. But one of Cronus' sons, Zeus, rebelled
against his father, and a struggle then ensued between them in which
most of the Titans sided with Cronus. Zeus and his brothers and
sisters finally defeated the Titans after 10 years of fierce battles
(the Titanomachia). The Titans were then hurled down by Zeus and
imprisoned in a cavity beneath Tartarus."
2. Father of Leto with Phoebe, and grandfather of Apollo and Artemis,
if that helps.
Athena, incidentally, sprang from the forehead of Zeus, without a
mother, thus avoiding all these relatives...
Quotation from Britannica Online http://www.eb.com
