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Titans
in
Circe
(Edited)

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
There had only been Titans once, at the dawning of the world.
p. 14.9
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
The Titans sneered.
p. 15.9
They went away, bent over their hopes, thinking what they could not wait to do when Titans ruled again.
p. 16.7
Look what happens to Titans who do not obey.
p. 17.4
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
Not only Titans would attend.
p. 31.2
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
But four Titan witches could not be easily dismissed.
p. 72.8
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
And what of that old Titan Prometheus on his rock.
p. 96.6
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
If there is war, Titan, Olympus will win it.
p. 249.7
You have always been insolent, Titan.
p. 350.8
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

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(1) (Titans as in: the mythological Titan, Atlas)
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) (titan as in: titan of industry)
something or someone that is very large or powerful
(3) (Titanic as in: sinking of the Titanic)
large British passenger ship that hit an iceberg and sank -- killing about 1500 people in 1912
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Saturn's largest moon is named "Titan" because of its size.

Titans in Circe (Edited)

Titans
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Circe
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