Editing Titanomachy (section)

==Zeus and his siblings take over Creation==
[[File:Joachim Wtewael - The Battle Between the Gods and the Titans - WGA25902.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|[[Joachim Wtewael]], ''The Battle Between the Gods and the Titans'', oil on copper, 1600]]

Zeus then waged a war against his father with his disgorged brothers and sisters as allies: [[Hestia]], [[Demeter]], [[Hera]], [[Hades]], and [[Poseidon]]. He released the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes from the earth (where they had been imprisoned by Cronus) by slaying their ward,  the she-monster [[Campe]], and they allied with him as well. The Hecatonchires offered to hurl stones to their enemies and the Cyclopes forged for Zeus his iconic thunderbolts, for Poseidon his trident and for Hades the [[Cap of invisibility|helmet of darkness]]. When Zeus took [[Mount Olympus]] as his base and called all the remaining gods to determine their allegiance, he declared that any god that chose to align with him against Cronus would preserve their honors, or if they had none under, they would be received them under his rule. The first to do so was [[Styx]], who brought her children: [[Nike (mythology)|Nike]], [[Zelus]], [[Kratos (mythology)|Kratos]], and [[Bia (mythology)|Bia]].<ref name=":0" /> As promised, Zeus appointed Styx as "the great oath of the gods".<ref>Gantz, pp. 29, 45; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:371-403 389–402]. Compare with [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.2.5 1.2.5]. West 1966, p. 272, points out that this story of Styx being the first to come to Zeus' aid, by bringing her children, including Nike (Victory) and Kratos (Strength), to Zeus' side, is an aetiological myth explaining both why the gods swear by Styx, and why Victory and Strength reside for evermore with Zeus. West suggests that this myth can be imagined as having come about thought the following though process. "Why do the gods swear by Styx? Because Zeus so ordained. Why did he do so? In reward for some service performed for him by Styx. In what connexion? Most likely in connexion with the Titanomachy, for that was when Zeus most needed help. Then did she fight for him? Hardly in person: but she might have sent her children to fight for him. Then who can they have been, that he needed there help? Why, Victory and Strength; those were the gods he needed."</ref>

Fighting on the other side allied with Cronus were the other Titans with the important exceptions of [[Themis]] and her son [[Prometheus]], who allied with the Olympians ([[Nota bene|N.B.]] for [[Hesiod]], [[Clymene (wife of Iapetus)|Clymene]] is Prometheus' mother). [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]], son of [[Iapetus]], was second in command after Cronus.<ref name=":0" /> The sisters [[Arke]] and [[Iris (mythology)|Iris]] sided with the Olympians as their messenger goddesses, but while Iris remained loyal to her allies, soon Arke betrayed them for Cronus and flew to Mount Othrys to be its messenger-goddess instead.{{sfn|Bould|2024|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=3h0UEQAAQBAJ&pg=PT32 32]}} 

The war lasted ten years, but eventually Zeus and the other Olympians won. Zeus had the defeated Titans imprisoned in [[Tartarus]] much like Cronus did to his father, and the Hecatonchires were made their guards. Atlas was given the special punishment of holding up the sky.<ref name=":0" /> Zeus severely punished Arke for her defection; she was deprived of her wings and cast into Tartarus as well.{{sfn|Smith|1873|loc=s.v. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D35%3Aentry%3Darce-bio-1 Arce]}} In some accounts, when Zeus became secure in his power, he relented and gave the Titans their freedom.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last=Morford|first=Mark P.O.|title=Classical Mythology|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=9780195397703|pages=80–82|edition=Ninth|author2=Lenardon, Robert J.|author3=Sham, Michael}}</ref>

The ''[[Iliad]]'' describes how following their victory, the three brothers divided the world amongst themselves: Zeus was given domain over the sky and the air and was recognized as the ruler of the gods (also known as the Sky Father). Poseidon was given the sea and all the waters, whereas Hades was given the Underworld, the realm of the dead. Each of the other gods were allotted duties according to the nature and proclivities of each.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D15%3Acard%3D184 15.185-195].</ref> The earth was left common to all to do as they pleased, even to run counter to one another, unless the brothers (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades) were called to intervene.

[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] relates the Titanomachy differently: "After Hera saw that [[Epaphus]], born of a concubine, ruled such a great kingdom (Egypt), she saw to it that he should be killed while hunting, and encouraged the Titans to drive Zeus from the kingdom and restore it to Cronus ([[Saturn (mythology)|Saturn]]). When they tried to mount heaven, [[Zeus]] with the help of [[Athena]], [[Apollo]], and [[Artemis]], cast them headlong into Tartarus. On Atlas, who had been their leader, he put the vault of the sky; even now he is said to hold up the sky on his shoulders."<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#150 150].</ref>