aphrodite was on zeus' side in the titanomachy.
aphrodite was on zeus' side in the titanomachy.
who was on zeus' side in the titanomachy?
aphrodite
kratos and his siblings are first mentioned in the poem "theogony", which was composed by the boeotian poet hesiod in the late eighth or early seventh century bc. hesiod states: "and styx the daughter of ocean was joined to pallas and bore zelus (emulation) and trim-ankled nike (victory) in the house. also she brought forth cratos (strength) and bia (force), wonderful children. these have no house apart from zeus, nor any dwelling nor path except that wherein god leads them, but they dwell always with zeus the loud-thunderer." here kratos is merely listed as a deified abstraction with little development or explanation. hesiod goes on to explain that the reason why the children of styx were allowed to dwell with zeus was because zeus had decreed after the titanomachy that all those who had not held offices under kronos would be given positions in his regime. because styx came to zeus first, along with her children, zeus honored them as among the highest members of his new regime. according to diana burton, styx, zelos, nike, kratos, and bia's voluntary change in allegiance represents the certainty of zeus's victory over the titans. while the goddesses dike ("justice"), eunomia ("good law"), and eirene ("peace") represent the benefits of zeus's reign, kratos and his siblings represent the work needed to build that regime.
kratos (mythology)
the titanomachy is a lost epic of the cosmological struggle between the greek gods and their parents, the titans, and is a probable source of the prometheus myth. along with the works of hesiod. its reputed author was anciently supposed to have lived in the 8th century bc, but m. l. west has argued that it can't be earlier than the late 7th century bc. presumably included in the titanomachy is the story of prometheus, himself a titan, who managed to avoid being in the direct confrontational cosmic battle between zeus and the other olympians against cronus and the other titans (although there is no direct evidence of prometheus' inclusion in the epic). m.l. west notes that surviving references suggest that there may have been significant differences between the titanomachy epic and the account of events in hesiod; and that the titanomachy may be the source of later variants of the prometheus myth not found in hesiod, notably the non-hesiodic material found in the prometheus bound of aeschylus.
prometheus