Who was the father of the Titans?

Uranus was the father of the Titans in Hesiod’s Theogony. He was the primordial personification of the Sky and fathered the twelve Titans with Gaia, the Earth.

In Hesiod’s creation genealogy, Gaia arose after Chaos and produced Uranus without a partner. Uranus then covered Gaia and became her consort. Their children included the twelve Titans, three Cyclopes, and three Hundred-Handers. The Titans were Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Cronus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys.

Uranus’s fear of his children set the succession myth in motion. He concealed some offspring within Gaia, causing her great distress. She fashioned an adamantine sickle and enlisted Cronus, who ambushed Uranus and overthrew him. Cronus then ruled until Zeus led the next generation against the Titans.

Cronus is the most tempting wrong answer because he was the father of the Olympian gods, not of the original Titans. Pontus was another child of Gaia and a primordial sea deity, while Zeus belonged to the younger Olympian generation.