Who led the Olympians in the Titanomachy?

Zeus led the Olympians in the Titanomachy.

The Titanomachy was the ten-year war in Greek mythology between the younger Olympian gods and the older Titans. Zeus emerged as the leader of the Olympian side, challenging the rule of his father, Cronus, who had previously overthrown Uranus and become ruler of the cosmos.

Zeus’s victory depended on more than the power of the Olympian siblings. He freed the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires from Tartarus, gaining powerful allies. The Cyclopes forged the thunderbolt for Zeus, while the Hecatoncheires, giants with fifty heads and one hundred arms, helped overwhelm the Titans. The Olympians fought from Mount Olympus; the Titans’ stronghold was Mount Othrys.

The war ended with the Olympians’ victory and the redistribution of cosmic authority. Zeus became ruler of the sky and supreme god, while Poseidon received the sea and Hades the underworld. Cronus and many allied Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus. A common mix-up is naming Cronus: he led the Titans, not the Olympians, and was Zeus’s defeated father.