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Whoever wrote the speech seems ignorant of one of the great themes of western culture, the Titanomachy, or war between the Olympian and Titanic deities, carved and painted for centuries longer than the United States has existed.

In language which recalls the Titanomachy, the poet tells of Satan and his myrmidons hurled from heaven.

Why it was Ægæon, is explained by the fact that this was a great sea-demon, who formed the subject of fables at Poseidonian Corinth, where even the sea-god himself was called Ægæon; who, moreover, was worshipped at several places in Eubœa, the seat of Poseidon Ægæus; and whom the Theogony calls the son-in-law of Poseidon, and most of the genealogists, especially Eumelus in the Titanomachy, brought into relation with the sea.

What links bound the "Titanomachy" to the Theben Cycle is not clear.

The "Titanomachy", ascribed both to Eumelus of Corinth and to Arctinus of Miletus, began with a kind of Theogony which told of the union of Heaven and Earth and of their offspring the Cyclopes and the Hundred-handed Giants.