Talk:Titans

message: Currently, Titan is a disambiguation page.  This makes no sense to me.  This article, about the Titans of Greek mythology, is the standard, original, foundational meaning of the term.  All other uses and meanings derive from this one.  I propose that the current disambiguation page be renamed 'Titan (disambiguation)' (and the current 'Titan (disambiguation)', which is a redirect, be deleted), and this page be renamed 'Titan'. Thanks! 68.100.231.72 (talk) 01:37, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Gonna agree with this, makes total sense. JadeMatrix (talk) 12:50, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: Make this ''the'' Titan page 

message: Metis is mentioned in the sidepanel as one of the 12 titans. But the text by Hesiodos (and my danish mythologies and encyclopedias) dont mention her.
"afterwards she lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire."
It is Cronos who is the no. 12 titan! Not Metis.
From denmark --217.116.235.34 16:42, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metis is not one of the original 12 titans 

message: An anonymous vandal, User:198.93.113.49, is apparently unwilling to see mentioned in this context of similar "Wars in Heaven" the battle between El and Baal, mentioned in the Ugarit libraries, and the later characterization of Yahweh and Lucifer. Is there an issue here I'm unaware of? Some kind of contention? Does anyone doubt that this is a theme running through multiple mythologies? Should this section be expanded to make it clearer? --Wetman 20:28, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: War between elder and younger gods

message: An article on Titans that doesn't briefly discuss the battle of the Titans with the Olympic gods, the Titanomachy, is clearly incomplete. A single linked reference, lost in a sea of blue links, is insufficient. Thinking of what the Wikipedia reader requires will often save editors from such gaffes. It seems proposterous to have these two brief paragraphs deleted, and to have to explain why they are required here. --Wetman 18:20, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brief references to [[Titanomachy]]

message: What does that sentence even mean?  "Some of them had not fought the Olympians and became key players in the new administration: Mnemosyne as a Muse, Rhea, Hyperion, Themis, or the "right ordering" of things and Metis.  Is it just me, or is that gibberish?75.82.153.250 20:34, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last sentence of Titanomachy

message: this isn't even an article anymore.  It's been totally destroyed by that stuff at the top—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.177.220.1 (talk) 23:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: I think there is a misstatement in the intro: "Titanides" would refer to the offspring of the titans. The same way that Agamemnon and Menelaos are referred to as "atreides": Sons of Atreas. Can someone confirm that the nomenclature was different for the titans? Otherwise I am going to delete that line. Lorangriel 14:05, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Titanides

message: Famed Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus considered the Greek Titans and Giants as equivalent to the Hebrew Nephilim and Rephaim.--71.222.54.25 06:02, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Titans and Nephilim

message: http://www.geocities.com/athens/troy/2774/mythgods.html has that list
Aphrodite=Venus
Ares=Mars
Artemis=Diana
Athena=Minerva
Demeter=Ceres
Dionysus=Bacchus
Erinyes=Furiae(Furies)
Kharites=Charities or Graces
Hades=Pluto
Hephaestos=Vulcan
Hera=Juno
Herakles=Hercules 
Hermes=Mercury
Hestia=Vesta
Kronos=Saturn
Ouranos=Uranus 
Pan=Faunus
Persephone=Proserpina
Poseidon=Neptune
Zeus=Jupiter  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.235.178.56 (talk) 21:33, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Answer 

message: I have read through this article and many other websites but I cant find the difference between a titan and a god except titans were large and strong. Could somebody please help me?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Funymoose (talk • contribs) 02:04, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Titans had been worshiped as gods before the arrival of the Olympian pantheon. The "difference between a titan and a god" from the point-of-view of sixth-century and later Greeks was that sacrifices were made to the gods, but the Titans had become vague ancient creatures of myth, who existed mostly for the gods to overcome. --Wetman (talk) 22:37, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Difference between titan and a god

message: All the refferences and external links went missing. I tried to pasted them from earlier version, but my knowledge of wiki was not good enough to accomplish this...72.29.240.25 (talk) 14:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been restored. I removed some vandalism but hadn't noticed that the refs and external links had been deleted as well. Cheers. freshacconcispeaktome 14:54, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing Links

message: Where has it all gone! I was researching and stumbled across this page, and there's nothing here!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brocky9 (talk • contribs) 17:46, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Page disappeared

message: I had re-added an external link "The Titians: An Astro-Mythological Tale of Creation and Mortality" that was removed last night without explanation. I would like to know why it was removed, and on what grounds? If there is some wiki violation that has been committed what is it and what are the criteria that is needed to include it. Thank you.--74.229.102.208 (talk) 14:26, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The link, to www.amengansie.com/titans.html Astro-Mythological [sic Tale of Creation and Mortality] bears no perceivable relation to the subject of this article. Wikipedia is a readers' service, not a hobby-horse for passers-by who don't bother to log in. Removed again. Please explain your insertion of this web link.--Wetman (talk) 15:45, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of External Link

message: Is there an accepted standard for the spelling of the youngest Titan? This article lists him as both "Kronos" and "Cronus" (and once as "Saturn").  I suspect "Cronus" is preferred, since that's the title of the main article, but either way it would be nice to decide on one. Vogelfrei (talk) 16:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standardization of names of Cronus 

message: What is this?
Quote: "There was also a great titan named Alexander who was king of all."
Is there any refernece to him whatsoever? 220.244.143.54 (talk) 13:39, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alexander 

message: The opening text says there are 12 titans.  13 are listed in the opening paragraph, while the sidebar has 12 of them. Atlas is the extra one not in the sidebar but in the opening paragraph.  I don't know enough about the subject to say whether he was or was not one of the original 12.  Should this be edited? Dexeron (talk) 13:52, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The confusion seems to be between the "Twelve Titans", the sons and daughters of Gaia and Uranus, and their children, of whom Atlas is one.  The Titans' children seem to be also considered Titans, going by their articles.  See what you think of forthcoming edit. —chaos5023 (talk) 16:55, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  12 vs 13 Titans 

message: What I want to see here especially is at least one Jewish source that describes a battle involving Lucifer.  My Tannakh, Talmud and Midrash studies haven't turned one up so far.
4.249.63.217 (talk) 18:36, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah.  What with its utter absence from actual primary sources, Lucifer's rebellion is pretty much the canonical example of what the Christian mythology article is talking about.  I dropped the editor a note. —chaos5023 (talk) 18:57, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed 

message: Whoever removed it did a really clumsy job. The article essentially opened with the phrase "Hesiod does not, however, have the last word on the Titans," which is problematic because it is the first  reference to Hesiod in the article. Someone appears to have just excised it without bothering to look at the results. If you re-remove it, please make sure to edit the next section so that the article remains coherent.
Zoweee (talk) 06:49, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-added Titanomachy section 

message: In the Ciris cave section I read "4 Crassus first". Should that 4 be there? Something doesn't look right. Is that LI meant to be 51AD?
ICE77 (talk) 02:10, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange section 

message: I'm uncomfortable with the following assertion in the In Popular Culture section:
:Out of conflation with the Gigantes, various large things have been named after the Titans, for their "titanic" size, for example the RMS Titanic
Given that there were 3 ships built, the Titanic, the Gigantic and the Olympic, it's just not feasible that there was conflation here. And the Titanic article never mentions it. It's true (though not easily sourced from a wiki point of view) that people now mis-understand the meaning of the name RMS Titanic, but there's no evidence I've seen that the people who named it then got it wrong. Kayman1uk (talk) 09:34, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size 

message: I edited the sentence regarding moons of Saturn. I wanted to make it clear that many (though not all) of Saturn's moons were named after Titans, not just it's largest moon, Titan. If anything, the article implied Titan was the only such-named moon. I tried to word it appropriately. 163.41.136.11 (talk) 20:39, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I just went ahead and removed it; it's not only of dubious relevance, but also unsourced. If you feel differently, please discuss here, and if you want to put it back, please add a reference. --Lalo Martins (talk) 08:10, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Titans in popular culture 

message: Substituted at 08:53, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The sentence "This story is told by the poets Callimachus and Nonnus, who call this Dionysus "Zagreus", and in a number of Orphic texts, which do not" does not make much sense to me. It should be revised.
ICE77 (talk) 20:51, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear sentence 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I have so many questions about the Titans that are not reflected in the text of this article.
1. I know of some worship of Titans as syncretized gods in the Roman period, like Saturn/Baal-Hammon in Roman Carthage, or Rhea/Cybele all over the empire. But were Titans worshipped on their own in other ways? Were there Titan temples or cult centers anywhere?
2. If so, is there any evidence that the story of the overthrow of the Titans by Zeus and the other Olympians reflects a religious revolution? That is, a change of pantheon at some early point in Greek history?
Thanks. --ESP (talk) 19:17, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be worth mentioning that I am not asking about the supposed worship of Titans during the fictional Golden Age, but about archaeology or history of Titan worship. -ESP (talk) 19:24, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Titan cult 

message: Hi Tom, thanks for your edits to this article (by the way I see that you are a math PHD, as it happens, so am I ;-). I've undone some of the changes you've made, in particuluar, your changes separating the combined cites, and your separating out the some explanatory notes into its own section, since I see no good reason to change the established citation style for this article (you might also want to take a look at WP:CITEVAR for the established policy in this regard). I'd be happy to further discuss your proposed changes here. Regards, Paul August ☎ 14:21, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent citation style changes

message: I think it would be a good idea to mention that the element "titanium" is named after the Titans. kupirijo (talk) 21:48, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Titanium