Editing Titans (section)

===Possible release===
While in Hesiod's ''Theogony'', and Homer's ''Iliad'', Cronus and the other Titans are confined to Tartarus&mdash;apparently forever<ref>Gantz, p. 46;  Burkert 1985, p. 221; West 1966, p. 358.</ref>&mdash;another tradition, as indicated by later sources, seems to have had Cronus, or other of the Titans, being eventually set free.<ref>Gantz, pp. 46&ndash;48.</ref> [[Pindar]], in one of his poems (462 BC), says that, although Atlas still "strains against the weight of the sky ... Zeus freed the Titans",<ref>[[Pindar]], ''Pythian'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg002.perseus-eng1:4 4.289&ndash;291].</ref> and in another poem (476 BC), Pindar has Cronus, in fact, ruling in the [[Isles of the Blessed]], a land where the Greek heroes reside in the afterlife:<ref>Gantz, p. 47; West 1978, p. 195 on line 173a.</ref>
{{blockquote|Those who have persevered three times, on either side, to keep their souls free from all wrongdoing, follow Zeus' road to the end, to the tower of Cronus, where ocean breezes blow around the island of the blessed, and flowers of gold are blazing, some from splendid trees on land, while water nurtures others. With these wreaths and garlands of flowers they entwine their hands according to the righteous counsels of [[Rhadamanthys]], whom the great father, the husband of Rhea whose throne is above all others, keeps close beside him as his partner.<ref>[[Pindar]], ''Olympian'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2 2.69&ndash;77].</ref>}}

''Prometheus Lyomenos'', an undated lost play by [[Aeschylus]] (c. 525 &ndash; c. 455 BC), had a chorus composed of freed Titans. Possibly even earlier than Pindar and Aeschylus, two papyrus versions of a passage of Hesiods' ''[[Works and Days]]'' also mention Cronus being released by Zeus, and ruling over the heroes who go to the Isle of the Blessed; but other versions of Hesiod's text do not, and most editors judge these lines of text to be later interpolations.<ref>Gantz, pp. 46&ndash;47; West 1988, p. 76, note to line 173; West 1978, pp. 194&ndash;196, on lines 173a&ndash;e.</ref>