
Episode 8: Before Orthodoxy (Hesiod's Theogony)
Literature and History
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The Titans Have Never Bunched, Quote.
Zeus had a secret weapon. Three of the hundred-handed, fifty-headed giants were on Zeus's side since he'd freed them. When the sides were drawn, the Olympians, the Cyclops, and some other powerful gods stood against the Titans. Neither side prevailed. The three hundred-handed giants saw that Zeus's fire had turned the tides of battle. They charged the cowering Titans and bound them; the Titans were cast down into the outer darkness of Tartaros. In the Inferno, when the Italian poet Dante Alligieri created his own theological compilation two thousand years after he see it, Dante recorded seeing the Titans in one of the lowest basements of Hell
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