Titanomachy
In Greek mythology, the
Titanomachy /ˌtaɪtəˈnɒməki/ or
War of the Titans, was the ten-year series of battles which were fought in Thessaly between the two camps of deities long before the existence of mankind: the Titans, based on Mount Othrys, and the Olympians, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus. This
Titanomachia is also known as the
Battle of the Titans,
Battle of Gods, or just
The Titan War. The war was fought to decide who would become the rulers of the Universe. Greeks of the Classical age knew of several poems about the war between the gods and many of the Titans. The dominant one, and the only one that has survived, is the
Theogony attributed to Hesiod. A lost epic,
Titanomachia, attributed to the blind Thracian bard Thamyris, himself a legendary figure, was mentioned in passing in an essay
On Music that was once attributed to Plutarch. The Titans also played a prominent role in the poems attributed to Orpheus. Although only scraps of the Orphic narratives survive, they show interesting differences from the Hesiodic tradition.