Zeus Was Losing the Titan War — Until He Freed 6 Monsters

Zeus did not win the Titan War with lightning. For the first ten years he did not have any. Hesiod's Theogony says the war lasted ten full years with neither side moving a step - because immortals cannot be killed, so there was nothing to win. What broke it was Zeus going down into the earth, opening a prison his own grandfather had put six beings into, and asking them for help. Three of them forged the thunderbolt. Three of them threw three hundred rocks at once. The war ended almost immediately. And what Zeus did with those six afterwards is the part that tells you what kind of king he was going to be. CHAPTERS 0:00 Zeus was losing 1:01 The two sides, and ten years of nothing 1:43 Why immortals cannot win a war 2:31 The six who were sealed away 3:17 Cronus walked past the door 3:53 The earth tells him where they are 4:11 He goes down alone 5:15 "We know you brought us back up out of the dark" 5:33 The smiths who made the lightning bolt 6:26 Three hundred rocks at once 7:00 Ten years of stalemate, over in days 8:10 Not as prisoners. As the guards. 8:55 The pattern in everything Zeus does 9:39 Why nobody tells you this part THE ZEUS ARC Part One - Zeus vs Cronus: https://youtu.be/3RltXvfXj6c Part Two - Zeus vs Typhon: https://youtu.be/0Vnat6UowDY Part Three - The 12 Titans: https://youtu.be/Sy_tGnXfMfo SOURCES Hesiod, Theogony 139-153, 154-160, 501-506, 617-663, 678-725, 734-735 Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.2.1 (the trident and the helm of invisibility) This episode follows Hesiod throughout. Apollodorus is used only for the trident and the helm, where Hesiod is silent. Where the two disagree about when the Hundred-Handed and the Cyclopes were imprisoned and released, this video follows Hesiod and says so. MUSIC "Desert Planet" by Quincas Moreira "Spine Chilling Cardiac Tension" by Biz Baz Studio Both from the YouTube Audio Library. #GreekMythology #Zeus #TitanWar #Titanomachy #Hesiod #Theogony #Cronus #Tartarus #Cyclopes #Hecatoncheires #GreekGods #Mythology #AncientGreece #MythologyExplained #MortalMyths The Titan War: Zeus Won It With Six Prisoners (UNTOLD Story)