![]() ![]() In Virgil's Aeneid, it is Latium to which Saturn (Cronus) escapes and ascends as king and lawgiver, following his defeat by his son Jupiter (Zeus). In another version, the Titans released the Cyclopes from Tartarus, and Cronus was awarded the kingship among them, beginning a Golden Age. Pindar describes his release from Tartarus, where he is made King of Elysium by Zeus. In Orphic poems, he is imprisoned for eternity in the cave of Nyx. In Homeric and other texts he is imprisoned with the other Titans in Tartarus. Gaia bore the monster Typhon to claim revenge for the imprisoned Titans.Īccounts of the fate of Cronus after the Titanomachy differ. However, Oceanus, Helios, Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius were not imprisoned following the Titanomachy. Afterwards, many of the Titans were confined in Tartarus. In a vast war called the Titanomachy, Zeus and his older brothers and sisters, with the help of the Hecatoncheires and Cyclopes, overthrew Cronus and the other Titans. Īfter freeing his siblings, Zeus released the Hecatoncheires, and the Cyclopes who forged for him his thunderbolts, Poseidon's trident and Hades' helmet of darkness. In other versions of the tale, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the children. Once he had grown up, Zeus used an emetic given to him by Gaia to force Cronus to disgorge the contents of his stomach in reverse order: first the stone, which was set down at Pytho under the glens of Mount Parnassus to be a sign to mortal men, and then his two brothers and three sisters. Still other versions of the tale say that Zeus was raised by his grandmother, Gaia. ![]() Other versions of the myth have Zeus raised by the nymph Adamanthea, who hid Zeus by dangling him by a rope from a tree so that he was suspended between the earth, the sea, and the sky, all of which were ruled by his father, Cronus. According to some versions of the story, he was then raised by a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Kouretes, armored male dancers, shouted and clapped their hands to make enough noise to mask the baby's cries from Cronus. Rhea kept Zeus hidden in a cave on Mount Ida, Crete. Rhea secretly gave birth to Zeus in Crete, and handed Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, also known as the Omphalos Stone, which he promptly swallowed, thinking that it was his son. When the sixth child, Zeus, was born, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save them and to eventually get retribution on Cronus for his acts against his father and children. As a result, although he sired the gods Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades and Poseidon by Rhea, he devoured them all as soon as they were born to prevent the prophecy. ![]() Painting by Peter Paul Rubens of Cronus devouring one of his childrenĬronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own sons, just as he had overthrown his father. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn. ![]() In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of the harvest. Ĭronus was usually depicted with a harpe, scythe or a sickle, which was the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. According to Plato, however, the deities Phorcys, Cronus, and Rhea were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. In Greek mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos ( / ˈ k r oʊ n ə s/ or / ˈ k r oʊ n ɒ s/, US: /- oʊ s/, from Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky). Zeus, Hera, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Poseidon, Chiron ![]()
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