All 29 Uses of

Titans

in

Circe

Yet they were both Titans, and preferred each other's company to those new-squeaking gods upon Olympus who had not seen the making of the world.
p. 3.7

Titans = Greek mythology: the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

They were Titans like my father and grandfather, like Prometheus, the remnants of the war among the gods.
p. 14.8

He clapped those who had defied him into chains, and the remaining Titans he stripped of their powers, bestowing them on his brothers and sisters and the children he had bred.
p. 15.7

They went away, bent over their hopes, thinking what they could not wait to do when Titans ruled again.
p. 16.7

There is no lesson here for a Titan.
p. 17.5

Titan = Greek mythology: one of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

Even the great Titans came: my father, of course, and Oceanos, but also shape-shifting Proteus and Nereus of the Sea; my aunt Selene, who drives her silver horses across the night sky; and the four Winds led by my icy uncle Boreas.
p. 18.1

Titans = Greek mythology: the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

Titans passed before me: my aunt Selene; my uncle Nereus trailing seaweed; Mnemosyne, mother of memories, and her nine light-footed daughters.
p. 31.6

Perhaps, Aeetes said, she was too proud to rub shoulders with earthbound Titans.
p. 32.9

They took him to Nereus, old Titan god of the sea, who in turn introduced him to Poseidon, his new lord.
p. 51.1

Titan = Greek mythology: one of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

The truce between the gods held only because Titans and Olympians each kept to their sphere.
p. 80.1 *

Titans = Greek mythology: the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

There is no mortal in me, I am Titan only.
p. 93.8

Titan = Greek mythology: one of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

For the first time it struck me how strange it was that we divide Titans from Olympians, when of course Zeus was born from Titan parents, and Hermes' own grandfather was the Titan Atlas.
p. 94.3

Titans = Greek mythology: the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

For the first time it struck me how strange it was that we divide Titans from Olympians, when of course Zeus was born from Titan parents, and Hermes' own grandfather was the Titan Atlas.
p. 94.4

Titan = Greek mythology: of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

For the first time it struck me how strange it was that we divide Titans from Olympians, when of course Zeus was born from Titan parents, and Hermes' own grandfather was the Titan Atlas.
p. 94.4

Titan = Greek mythology: one of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

In the sky above this place, he vanquished a Titan giant, drenching the land with blood.
p. 94.7

But all I knew of war came from my father's stories of the Titans.
p. 200.4

Titans = Greek mythology: the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

I am Titan blood.
p. 230.1

Titan = Greek mythology: of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

It was said to be made from the skin of a Titan that she had flayed and tanned herself.
p. 247.8

Titan = Greek mythology: one of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

The Olympians and Titans.
p. 358.6

Titans = Greek mythology: the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

I think Zeus would be glad to know how deep the Titan mutiny goes, don't you?
p. 360.9

Titan = Greek mythology: of the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

We would ride elephants and walk in the desert night beneath the eyes of gods who had never heard of Titans or Olympians, who took no more notice of us than they did of the sand beetles toiling at our feet.
p. 383.4

Titans = Greek mythology: the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

Definitions:

(1) (Titans as in: Atlas from Greek mythology)
Greek mythology: the giant-sized gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus

Atlas (often seen holding the earth) is perhaps the best known Titan. The Titans were offspring of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth).
(2) (Titanic as in: sinking of the Titanic)
large British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank -- killing about 1500 people in 1912
(3) (titan as in: titan of industry)
someone who is powerful or large
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Saturn's largest moon is named "Titan" because of its size.