So these nymphs fed the child on the milk of Amalthea 9 and the Curetes in arms guarded the babe in the cave, clashing their spears on their shields in order that Cronus 8 She gave him to the CuretesĪnd to the nymphs Adrastia and Ida, daughters of Melisseus, to nurse. His firstborn Hestia he swallowed, then Demeter and Hera,Įnraged at this, Rhea repaired to Crete, when she was big with Zeus, and brought him forth 6 And, having dethroned theirįather, they brought up their brethren who had been hurled down to Tartarus,īut he again bound and shut them up in Tartarus, and wedded his sister Rhea and sinceīoth Earth and Sky foretold him that he would be dethroned by his own son, he used to Into the sea and from the drops of the flowing blood were born Furies, to wit, Alecto, They, all but Ocean, attacked him, and Cronus cut off his father's genitals and threw them Persuaded the Titans to attack their father and gave Cronus an adamantine sickle. 4Īnd again he begat children by Earth, to wit, the TitansĪs they are named: Ocean, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, Iapetus, and, youngest of all, Cronus Īlso daughters, the Titanides as they are called: Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe,īut Earth, grieved at the destruction of her children, who had been cast into Tartarus,
Place in Hades as far distant from earth as earth is distant from the sky. But them Sky bound and cast into Tartarus, a gloomy 2Īfter these, Earth bore him the Cyclopes, to Hundred-handed, as they are named: Briareus, Gyes, Cottus, who were unsurpassed in sizeĪnd might, each of them having a hundred hands and fifty heads.
1 And having wedded Earth, he begat first the Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world.
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