Uranus (mythology) three one-hundred-handed giants the Hekatonkheires, and the one-eyed giants the Cyclopes. Uranus imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth, where they caused pain to Gaia. She shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and asked her sons to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus, youngest and most ambitious of the Titans, was willing: he ambushed his father and castrated him, casting the severed testicles into the sea. For this fearful deed, Uranus called his sons Titanes Theoi, or "Straining Gods." From the blood that spilled from Uranus onto the Earth came forth the Giants, the Erinyes (the avenging Furies), the Meliae (the
The Translation of Ancient Greek Drama in All the Languages of the World F.R. de Oliveira and K. Georgosopoulos. The Translation of Ancient Greek Drama in All the Languages of the World The Translation of Ancient Greek Drama in All the Languages of the World () is a collection of lectures and essays on the translation of Ancient Greek drama, edited by Helena Patrikiou and published in 1998. The book includes work presented in October 1995 as part of a convention on the translation of Greek drama, in which nearly 40 scholars and translators participated. The compilation features lectures and essays by Giorgos Aggelinaras, P. Mavromoustakou, Christina Symvoulidou, , , A. Feldhuns, G.