Greek PantheonMountain
Mount Othrys
The mountain range in central Greece, south of the Thessalian plain, from which Hesiod says the Titans fought their ten-year war against the Olympian gods on Olympus.
About Mount Othrys
The Titans' Side of the War
In Hesiod's Theogony the war between the Titans and the children of Cronus is fought between two mountains: the Titans on lofty Othrys, the Olympians on Olympus across the Thessalian plain. The fighting lasts ten full years without either side winning, until Zeus frees the Hundred-Handed ones and the Titans are driven down into Tartarus.
Hesiod names Othrys only as the Titans' base in that war. It is a real range in Phthiotis and Magnesia, facing Olympus from the south, and the picture of a palace of the Titans on its summit belongs to later and modern retellings rather than to the ancient poem.
On the map
Mount Othrys among other places of the Greek Pantheon.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Hesiod, Theogony 630-636 (paraphrase)
About this entry
By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. About the author. Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.
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