Coeus’s Family Tree

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Family

• Gaia(parent),Uranus(parent),Crius(sibling),Hyperion(sibling),Iapetus(sibling),Kronos(sibling),Mnemosyne(sibling),Oceanus(sibling),Phoebe(sibling),Rhea(sibling),Tethys(sibling),Theia(sibling),Themis(sibling)— Consort

  Gaia and Uranus produced the twelve elder Titans — Kronos, Rhea, Oceanus, Tethys, Theia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Phoebe — who ruled the cosmos during the Golden Age before the Olympians overthrew them.

• Phoebe(spouse),Asteria(child),Leto(child)— Marriage

  Coeus and Phoebe, both children of Gaia and Uranus, produced the Titanesses Leto and Asteria. Through Leto, Coeus became grandfather of Apollo and Artemis.

Guarded by

• Hecatoncheires

  After the Titanomachy, the Hecatoncheires were appointed by Zeus to guard Coeus and the other imprisoned Titans in Tartarus, ensuring they could never escape.

Enemy of

• Uranus

  In Hesiod's Theogony, Coeus was one of the four Titan brothers who held their father Uranus in place while Kronos castrated him with an adamantine sickle, ending Uranus's tyrannical rule.

Member of

• Titans

  The elder gods who ruled during the Golden Age before being overthrown by the Olympians, including the twelve first-generation Titans born to Ouranos and Gaia and second-generation members Pallas and Perses.