\b0 For ten long years the\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht12014 Titans\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 \cf7 had been fighting with the
new generation of Olympians for power. The conflict took place in Thessaly where the old gods had their stronghold on Mount Othrys, while \b \cf4 \ATXht8 Zeus\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 and the other new gods held\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht11507 Olympus\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0
: it was a stalemate that proved hard to break, until Zeus descended into the depths of the earth where the\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht10806 Hecatoncheires\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 (or Centimanes) had been imprisoned by\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht12102 Uranus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 \cf7 and set them free. There were three of these, enormous monsters with fifty heads and a hundred arms each. Seizing equally huge boulders in their powerful hands, they hurled them against the Titans, who were crushed. It is told that the outcome of the b
attle was also decided by the thunderbolts given to Zeus by the\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht10336 Cyclopes\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , whom he had freed as well. After their defeat the Titans were bound with chains and cast into\cf0 \b \cf4 \ATXht12003 Tartarus\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 .
