The 12 Titans: The Gods Zeus Buried Alive (UNTOLD Story)

🏛️ Subscribe for more legends: https://youtube.com/@TheMortalMyths Six of the twelve Titans were buried alive in Tartarus. Six were not. Zeus did not destroy the Titans - he buried the ones who fought him and absorbed the rest into his own government. That is a political purge, not a war, and Hesiod wrote it down in the eighth century BC. This is Part 3 of the Zeus arc. Part 1 - The War: https://youtu.be/3RltXvfXj6c Part 2 - The Monster That Almost Ended Him: https://youtu.be/0Vnat6UowDY Part 3 - The 12 Olympians: The God Who Ate His Own Wife (UNTOLD Story) https://youtu.be/NhMVhsy63rA In this episode: - What a Titan actually was - not gods OF things, but the things themselves - Tartarus described exactly as Hesiod describes it, bronze fence and all - Who went in: Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, Crius, Coeus - Who did not: Oceanus, and all six Titanesses - Why Atlas was never one of the twelve - The answer to the question nobody asks: why those six? CHAPTERS 0:00 Six Were Buried Alive. Six Were Not. 0:53 Parts 1 and 2 in 35 Seconds 1:26 What a Titan Actually Was 2:25 Tartarus, Exactly as Hesiod Describes It 3:01 Cronus - Buried in the Prison He Built 3:19 Hyperion - Light Buried Where Light Cannot Reach 3:33 Iapetus, and the Son Who Chose Zeus 4:00 Crius and Coeus - The Two Nobody Remembers 4:39 The Hundred-Handed Wardens 5:23 Atlas Was Not One of the Twelve 6:22 Oceanus - The Titan Who Kept Everything 6:50 The Six Sisters Zeus Never Punished 8:09 Why Those Six? The Answer 9:08 Two Greek Sources, Two Different Endings SOURCES Hesiod, Theogony (8th century BC) - the twelve names, the Titanomachy, the description of Tartarus, and the Hecatoncheires as wardens Hesiod, Theogony 507-616 - Iapetus, Prometheus and Atlas Pindar, Olympian 2 (5th century BC) - Cronus released and given a kingdom in the Isles of the Blessed Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.1-1.2 - the Titan list and the aftermath Greek and Roman sources are kept separate throughout. Nothing here comes from Ovid. Was Zeus a king, or the first tyrant to write his own history? Tell me in the comments - I read all of them. Subscribe for new Greek mythology every Tuesday. 📩 Business: [email protected] #greekmythology #titans #zeus #cronus #tartarus #atlas #prometheus #hesiod #mythology #ancientgreece #greekgods #titanomachy #mythologyexplained #olympians #mortalmyths #GreekMythology #Mythology #MortalMyths #AncientGods #Olympus