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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Ruler of the Titans in Greek mythology Not to be confused with Chronos, the personification of time. For other uses, see Cronus (disambiguation). Cronus Leader of the Titans Rhea offers a stone wrapped in swaddling stones, instead of the newborn Zeus, to Cronus. Red-figure ceramic vase c ...
His wife Ops eventually hid his sixth child and third son, Jupiter , on the island of Crete, deceiving Saturn by offering a stone wrapped in swaddling in his place. Unlike the painting, the myths usually portray Saturn/Kronos swallowing his children, and later vomiting them up alive after swallowing the stone, rather than violently tearing them ...
When Rhea had her sixth and final child, Zeus, she spirited him away and hid him in Crete, giving Cronus a rock to swallow instead, thus saving her youngest son who would go on to challenge his father's rule and rescue the rest of his siblings. Following Zeus's defeat of Cronus and the rise of the Olympian gods into power, Rhea withdraws from ...
Later in the myth, after his succession, Uranus curses Cronus so that his own son will overthrow him, just as Cronus did to Uranus. To try to prevent this, Cronus swallows all of his children as soon as they are born. Rhea seeks out help in hiding her youngest son, Zeus, Gaia hears her distress and gives her a perfectly infant shaped rock that ...
So as not to suffer the same fate, Cronus decided to consume all his children right after birth. But his wife and sister Rhea, unwilling to see all her children suffer such a fate, handed him a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes after the birth of Zeus, their sixth child. [1]
Hera is the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, and the sibling of Hestia, Demeter, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. [127] Cronus was fated to be overthrown by one of his children; to prevent this, he swallowed all of his newborn children whole until Rhea tricked him into swallowing a stone instead of her youngest child, Zeus.
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In Hesiod's Theogony, the Titan Cronus swallows the first five of his children—Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon—once each is born, and so, their mother, Rhea, gives Cronus a stone to swallow in place of their sixth child, Zeus; she then hides the infant in Crete, though little is said of his upbringing (and there is no mention of ...