hen they had eaten and drunk their spirits grew within
the giants, and they were ready to make war upon the Titan gods.

"Sons of Earth and Heaven," said Zeus to the hundred-armed giants, "a
long time now have the Dwellers on Olympus been striving with the Titan
gods. Do you lend your unconquerable might to the gods and help them to
overthrow the Titans."

Cottus, the eldest of the giants, answered, "Divine One, through your
devising we are come back again from the murky gloom of the mid Earth
and we have escaped from the hard bonds that Cronos laid upon us. Our
minds are fixed to aid you in the war against the Titan gods."

So the hundred-armed giants said, and thereupon Zeus went and he
gathered around him all who were born of Cronos and Rhea. Cronos
himself hid from Zeus. Then the giants, with their fifty heads growing
from their shoulders and their hundred hands, went forth against the
Titan gods. The boundless sea rang terribly and the earth crashed
loudly; wide Heaven was shaken and groaned, and high Olympus reeled
from its foundation. Holding huge rocks in their hands the giants
attacked the Titan gods.

Then Zeus entered the war. He hurled the lightning; the bolts flew
thick and fast from his strong hand, with thunder and lightning and
flame. The earth crashed around in burning, the forests crackled with
fire, the ocean seethed. And hot flames wrapped the earth-born Titans
all around. Three hundred rocks, one upon another, did Cottus,
Briareus, and Gyes hurl upon the Titans. And when their ranks were
broken the giants seized upon them and held them for Zeus.

But some of the Titan gods, seeing that the strife for them was vain,
went over to the side of Zeus. These Zeus became friendly with. But the
other Titans he bound in chains and he hurled them down to Tartarus.

As far as Earth is from Heaven so is Tartarus from Earth. A brazen
anvil falling down from Heaven to Earth nine days and nine nights would
reach the earth upon the tenth day. And again, a brazen anvil falling
from Earth nine nights and nine days would reach Tartarus upon the
tenth night. Around Tartarus runs a fence of bronze and Night spreads
in a triple line all about it, as a necklace circles the neck. There
Zeus imprisoned the Titan gods who had fought against him; they are
hidden in the misty gloom, in a dank place, at the ends of the Earth.
And they may not go out, for Poseidon fixed gates of bronze upon their
prison, and a wall runs all