[15] The battle with the Titans, Hesiod, Theog. 627-735. Hesiod mentions nothing about the Gigantes and the Gigantomachia: Apollodôrus, on the other hand, gives this latter in some detail, but despatches the Titans in a few words (i. 2, 4; i. 6, 1). The Gigantes seem to be only a second edition of the Titans,—a sort of duplication to which the legendary poets were often inclined.
[16] Hesiod, Theog. 820-869. Apollod. i. 6, 3. He makes Typhôn very nearly victorious over Zeus. Typhôeus, according to Hesiod, is father of the irregular, violent, and mischievous winds: Notus, Boreas, Argestês and Zephyrus, are of divine origin (870).
[17] Hesiod, Theog. 885-900.
[18] Apollod. i. 3, 6.
[19] Hesiod, Theog. 900-944.
[20] Homer, Iliad, xviii. 397.
[21] See Burckhardt, Homer, und Hesiod. Mythologie, sect. 102. (Leipz. 1844).
[22] Λιμὸς—Hunger—is a person, in Hesiod, Opp. Di. 299.
[23] See Göttling, Præfat. ad Hesiod. p. 23.
[24] Iliad, xiv. 249; xix. 259. Odyss. v. 184. Oceanus and Têthys seem to be presented in the Iliad as the primitive Father and Mother of the Gods:—