Editing Titanomachy (section)

==''Titanomachy'', the lost poem==
[[File:Titanomachy at the Gorgon pediment at Artemis Temple in Corfu.jpg|thumb|A possible Titanomachy: A beardless Zeus is depicted launching a [[thunderbolt]] against a kneeling figure (a Titan?) at the Gorgon pediment from the [[Temple of Artemis, Corfu|Temple of Artemis in Corfu]] as exhibited at the [[Archaeological Museum of Corfu]].]]
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A somewhat different account of the Titanomachy appeared in a poem that is now lost. The poem was traditionally ascribed to [[Eumelus of Corinth]], a semi-legendary bard of the [[Bacchiadae]] ruling family in archaic [[Corinth]],<ref>The Bacchiadae were exiled by the tyrant [[Cypselus]] about 657 BC.</ref> who was treasured as the traditional composer of the ''Prosodion'', the processional anthem of [[Messene|Messenian]] independence that was performed on [[Delos]].

Even in Antiquity, many authors cited ''Titanomachia'' without an author's name. The name of Eumelos was attached to the poem as the only name available.<ref name="mlwest">{{cite journal|first=M. L.|last=West|title='Eumelos': A Corinthian Epic Cycle?|journal=[[Journal of Hellenic Studies]]|volume=122|year=2002|pages=109–133|doi=10.2307/3246207|jstor=3246207}}</ref> From the very patchy evidence, it seems that "Eumelos"' account of the Titanomachy differed from the surviving account of Hesiod's ''Theogony'' at salient points. It was written in the late seventh-century BC at the earliest.<ref name="mlwest"/>

The ''Titanomachy'' was divided into two books. The battle of Olympians and Titans was preceded by some sort of theogony, or genealogy of the Primeval Gods, in which, the [[Byzantine]] writer [[John the Lydian]] remarked,<ref>Lydus, ''De mensibus'' 4.71.</ref> the author of Titanomachy placed the birth of Zeus, not in [[Crete]], but in [[Lydia]], which should signify on [[Mount Sipylus]].