Hyperion’s Family Tree

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Family

• Gaia(parent),Uranus(parent),Coeus(sibling),Crius(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.

• Theia(spouse),Eos(child),Helios(child),Selene(child)— Marriage

  Hyperion and Theia, Titans of heavenly light, were parents of Helios the sun, Selene the moon, and Eos the dawn.

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.

Associated with

• Endymion

  Hyperion and Theia were Selene's parents, making them grandparents to the fifty Menae that Selene bore to Endymion during her nightly visits to Mount Latmus.

• Titanomachy

  Hyperion fought alongside the Titans against the Olympians in the Titanomachy. After the Titans' defeat, he was cast into Tartarus with his brothers.

• Uranus

  Hyperion was one of the twelve Titans born to Uranus and Gaia, presiding over heavenly light. His children Helios, Selene, and Eos embodied the celestial bodies traversing their father's sky.