How did the Titans come to be seen as evil in modern times?

[Maponos]

Just as the title suggest.

I haven't done any preliminary research, so I'd like to hear what everyone else says.

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

It could be the Titans were an older set of deities whose worship was supplanted by the Olympians - hence the Titan War - and they were cast as malevolent by Olympian priests to make their cults increasingly unpopular. And perhaps this view has just persisted to modern times because nobody thought to change it.

There's another possibility - I'm reading a book on Dionysus just now which mentions the Orphic Mysteries It quotes Pausanias who lived in 200CE, author of Description of Greece describing the creator of the Orphic Mysteries, a man called Onomakritos thus:

"in the orgies he composed for Dionysos he made the Titans the authors of the god's sufferings".

It could be that minor innocuous changes to local myths and cult practises here and there (like the one described above) led to the Titans falling out of favour with the Hellenes.

 

[Alitheia Aylso]

Just as the title suggest.

I haven't done any preliminary research, so I'd like to hear what everyone else says.

Maybe Christians tried to make the role of the greek gods like their "good' God and tried to relate the titans to their demons.

They seemed to at least do that to Hades.

 

[syo]

I think modern scholars took the ''god vs satan'' and applied it to the titans.

 

[evilsorcerer1]

I think people i

Just as the title suggest.

I haven't done any preliminary research, so I'd like to hear what everyone else says.

n general view others as evil. I guess it's wanting to be in control, which is very tough to do in this world, with more than 7 billion people.