KIDS QUIZ
MYTHICAL CREATURES
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The Titans
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The Athens
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The Gorgons
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The Erinyes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Atlas, in Greek mythology, son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Clymene (or Asia) and brother of Prometheus (creator of humankind). In Homer’s Odyssey, Book I, Atlas seems to have been a marine creature who supported the pillars that held heaven and earth apart.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Greek mythology, the Titan Atlas was responsible for bearing the weight of the heavens on his shoulders, a burden given to him as punishment by Zeus.
Detailed explanation-3: -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).
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the Twelve Titans was Atlas. He was the son of Titan god Iapetus and Titan goddess Clymene. The Titans ruled the universe until Zeus, son of fellow Titan Cronus, banded together with the Olympians to overthrow his father and battle the Titans for the universe.