Olympians

Stories tagged Olympians:

• The Birth of Athena Jul 29, 2025

  

  The Birth of Athena

  In the early days of the world, when the Olympians had only recently secured their rule over the cosmos by defeating the Titans, Zeus sat upon his throne as king of the gods. Though his power was supreme, his wisdom remained incomplete, for wisdom requires not just strength but also thought, strategy, and foresight.

  In those days, Zeus took as his first wife the Titaness Metis, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Metis was known throughout the immortal realms for her extraordinary wisdom and cunning intelligence. Indeed, it was largely through her counsel that Zeus had prevailed in the war against the Titans, for her name itself meant “thought” or “wisdom,” and no deity or mortal could match her in sage advice or clever strategy.

• The Children of Cronus Jul 27, 2025

  

  In the beginning, when the world was young and the first gods ruled from their thrones of starlight and stone, there lived a Titan named Cronus who had seized power through violence and treachery. He had overthrown his own father, Uranus, with a sickle forged from adamant, and now ruled as king of all the gods. But Cronus carried within his heart a terrible fear—for he had been warned that one of his own children would someday do to him what he had done to his father.

• The Titanomachy Jul 26, 2025

  

  In the time before time, when the world was ruled by powers older than memory, there arose a conflict so vast and terrible that it shook the very foundations of creation. This was the Titanomachy—the War of the Titans—a ten-year battle that would determine who would rule the cosmos and shape the fate of gods and mortals alike.

  To understand this great war, we must first look back to the beginning, when Cronus, mightiest of the Titans, ruled over all creation from his throne of starlight and shadow.