Titias

Family: Idaean Dactyls · Role: dispenser of doom · First appears: Book I 9

Life events

• Heracles kills Titias in a boxing match.(Book II 7)
  • With: Heracles
  • “he entered the lists with Titias in boxing and slew him, mighty Titias, who surpassed all the youths in beauty and strength; and he dashed his teeth to the ground.”

Book I 9

• parent: Anchiale “Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother,—the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.”
• with Rhea (Titias is named as an assessor of the Idaean mother, Rhea.) “Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother”

Book II 7

• enemies with Heracles “he entered the lists with Titias in boxing and slew him, mighty Titias”

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.