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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 March 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 to Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, in place of the newborn Zeus. Red-figure ceramic vase, c ...
In Greek mythology, Cronius (Ancient Greek: Κρόνιον Kronios means "of Cronus" [1]) was the son of the Rhodian nymph Himalia and Zeus. He was the brother of Spartaeus and Cytus. [2] When Cronius and his brothers were still young men, Aphrodite travelling from Cythera to Cyprus, dropped near Rhodes but was prevented by the sons of Poseidon ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 March 2025. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains divine ...
Her symbols include the peacock, cuckoo, and cow. Poseidon: Neptune: God of the seas, water, storms, hurricanes, earthquakes and horses. The middle son of Cronus and Rhea. Brother of Zeus and Hades. Married to the Nereid Amphitrite; although, as with many of the male Greek gods, he had many lovers. His symbols include the trident, horse, bull ...
Rhea giving the rock to Cronus, 19th-century painted frieze by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Gaia and Uranus told Cronus that just as he had overthrown his own father and become ruler of the cosmos, he was destined to be overcome by his own child; so as each of his children was born, he swallowed them. [19]
They were overthrown as part of the Greek succession myth, which tells how Cronus seized power from his father Uranus and ruled the cosmos with his fellow Titans before being in turn defeated and replaced as the ruling pantheon of gods by Zeus and the Olympians in a ten-year war called the Titanomachy ('battle of the Titans').
In Hesiod's Theogony (c. 730 – 700 BC), Cronus, after castrating his father Uranus, [30] becomes the supreme ruler of the cosmos, and weds his sister Rhea, by whom he begets three daughters and three sons: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and lastly, "wise" Zeus, the youngest of the six. [31]
Time Clipping Cupid's Wings (1694), by Pierre Mignard. Chronos (/ ˈ k r oʊ n ɒ s,-oʊ s /; Ancient Greek: Χρόνος, romanized: Khronos, lit. 'Time'; , Modern Greek:), also spelled Chronus, is a personification of time in Greek mythology, who is also discussed in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature.