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The ancient Titans (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery




 		Keywords
Titans
Period
4th century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Servius, Scholia on Aeneas 6.580:
‘Ancient’, i.e. first. For she (= the Earth) bore the Titans to oppose Saturn, and the Giants later to oppose Jupiter. And the legends have it that the Titans were created by Earth when she was angry with the gods, to avenge her; that is why they are named Titans, from the Greek tisis, ‘vengeance’. Of them, the Sun-god alone is related to have abstained from assaulting the gods; hence he earned a place in heaven.

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Servius, Scholia on Aeneas 6.580

Bibliography

West 2002, 112West, Martin L. “'Eumelos'. A Corinthian Epic Cycle?.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 122 (2002) 109-133. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]

Amar Annus


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