The Old Gods

Who Were the Titans?

The complex web of Greek mythology is built around the core of Hesiod’s Theogony, which describes how the gods and the world came into being. The Titans were the Old Gods who were overthrown by Zeus and his allies Poseidon, Hades, and his champion Heracles. Thus the Olympian gods were the New Gods who overthrew the old in what has been called “The Cla…