One of the ancient titans Cronus

1. One of the ancient titans Cronus Gaia was not happy that so many of her children had been locked up in Tartarus, so she asked the 12 Titans if they would help her out. Only Cronos was willing. Gaia gave him a sickle with which to castrate his father. Cronos obliged. Once castrated, Ouranos was no longer fit to rule, so the Titans awarded the rule to Cronos. Cronos freed the Hecatoncheires and Cyclopes, but then re-imprisoned them.

2. Mother of all titans Gaia Two main groups of gigantic creatures, known as the Titans of Greek mythology, are distinguished by their generation. The Titans in the first generation are the aunts, uncles, and parents of Zeus and company (the Olympian gods and goddesses). [See Genealogy of the First Gods.] These Titans are the 12 children of Gaia and

3. One of the ancient titans atlas Atlas is the son of the Titans Iapetus and Clymene, two of the twelve Titans. In Roman mythology, Atlas had a wife, the nymph Pleione, who bore the 7 Pleiades, Alkyone, Merope, Kelaino, Elektra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia, and the Hyades, sisters of Hyas, named Phaesyla, Ambrosia, Coronis, Eudora, and Polyxo. Atlas also was sometimes named the father of the Hesperides (Hespere, Erytheis, and Aigle), whose mother was Hesperis. Nyx is another listed parent of the Hesperides.