Now's your chance to become a Titans buff: knowing how this war really went down will help you better understand how today's artists are interpreting the mythology.
Finally, the Titans smash their way onto the videogame screen in games like God of War. Rick Riordan spends a lot of time with the Titans in his popular novel series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians and there have even been a handful of Hollywood blockbusters (think Clash of the Titans and Immortals ).
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Lately, we've been seeing the Titan War pop up all over – in movies, books, TV shows, and even video games. And to top it off, people who witness the same event don't always notice the same things. Think about it: whenever you (or your parents) turn on the news to catch up on daily events, there's a good chance that the reports you're hearing have gone through at least three of four different people before they get to you. So we already talked about playing Telephone, but it turns out that this whole going-through-a-lot-of-people-before-it-gets-to-you thing is a pretty everyday occurrence. But all this piecing together means that just figuring out who did what to whom can be quite a challenge. A good war needs juicy details, which is probably why later authors seem to have embellished (added to) Hesiod's version to make it more interesting. We don't want to say that it's boring but… it's a little boring. And sure, the Theogony is our best source for information about the war, but it's a bit dry. This poem, called the Theogony, was written sometime during the 8th century BC by a part-time poet named Hesiod. The closest thing that we have to the "whole story" is a poem about the creation of the universe. To make matters worse, most of the authors who wrote about the war only covered small pieces of it. The story of the Titan war was handled in bits and pieces by dozens of authors, and trying to read it is like listening to a bunch of old Greek dudes play Telephone. It's also one of our best early examples of how a story can change (and boy do we mean change) when told by many different authors. This story of the war between the elder gods, also known as the Titans, and their younger siblings, the Olympians, is totally epic. Oh, and bonus: the story of the war of the Titans contains the answer to life, the universe, and, well, everything.
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Oh, you're not a fan of the action? You're more of a drama person? Well, then, here's a little something for you: this story is also full of love, betrayal, family hardship, and triumph in the face of tyranny. Giant mythological super beings, dudes throwing lightning bolts, giants with fifty heads: doesn't get much better than that.
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