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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1878161, member: 19463&quot;]At the risk of starting a flame war I&#039;ll point out that I consider the Titans to be gods.&nbsp; They were the set of deities that were defeated by the Olympians.&nbsp; Most significant among them was Kronos which the Romans called Saturn.&nbsp; There have been several works of literature dealing with the struggle between the Titans and the Olympians including Hesiod and the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan.&nbsp; Whenever we are discussing mythology or religion we risk upsetting someone who has a strong opinion on the matter.&nbsp; There are relatively few people today who are dedicated believers in Zeus, Kronos and Uranus (also a god and father of Kronos) so you probably won&#039;t get flack for disrespecting them but that same opinion would have got you thrown to the lions once upon a time.&nbsp;&nbsp; The difference between mythology and religion depends on whether you believe in the subject or not.&nbsp; Not all Romans believed in a tangible Jupiter but relatively few expressed that opinion when running for public office. [ATTACH=full]318006[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I know that there will be those of you who do not consider Rick Riordan to be mythology but his books are not any further removed from the last of the ancients who wrote mythology than those writers were from the first tales of the gods that formed what we consider to be &#039;proper&#039; mythology.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am unaware of coins of Uranus, Aither, Erebus or Chaos and the details about who thee guys were or who made them up is flame fodder for more than a few millennia ago.&nbsp; We do have coins of Saturn.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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