Zeus VS. Cronus Zeus VS. Cronus A myth submitted to the site by Megan F. Every family fights, for instance “The Kardashians,” but not as rough as Zeus and Cronus. In Greek Mythology siblings fight, even children and parents. In Greek Myths Cronus ruled over the Titans until Zeus came in and overthrew him. Zeus and Cronus are similar by how they both punished people and both overthrew their dads; they are different by how Zeus has never been defeated and Cronus has and Cronus had to eat his children to stay powerful (but it didn’t work) and Zeus didn’t have to do that to stay ruler. Zeus and Cronus are similar by how they both punished people. Zeus punished people for lying and breaking oaths. Zeus had a very hard time to trust people, so when they did break his trust he would do something to them because he felt like it was what he should do. “He (Zeus) is also known to punish those that lie or break oaths”(Greek Mythology). Whereas, he did that to show how much he disliked liars and people who were untrustworthy.

Cronus punished people to stay ruler of the Titans. Cronus was one of the 12 Titans and his father, Uranus, sent all of them away so he could stay ruler. Gaia asked her children to help her overthrow her husband. “...so she asked the twelve Titans for a volunteer to help her out. Only Cronus was brave enough… Once castrated, Uranus was no longer fit to rule… The rule to Cronus… who then freed his siblings from the Underworld… But soon re-imprisoned them” (Ancient History). Thus, he punished people because he felt like that was the way to show people that he is not a person you want to mess with. Therefore, since they both punished people they are similar in some ways. Zeus and Cronus are similar by how they both overthrew their dads. Zeus overthrew his dad, Cronus, because his mother asked him to. “When he grew up Zeus would revolt against Cronus and the other Titans, defeat them, and banish them to Tartarus in the underworld” (Greek Mythology). Much less, Zeus defeated Cronus and the Titans to become ruler.

Cronus overthrew his father because his mom told him to also. “Cronus was the ruling Titan who came to power by castrating his father, Uranus” (Ancient History). As a result, Cronus overthrew his father because his father was a horrible ruler and his mother wanted to get back at him for sending her children away. Therefore, since they both overthrew their fathers they are similar in that way. Zeus and Cronus are different by how Zeus has never been defeated and Cronus has. Zeus never got defeated because he was a strong and a tremendous ruler. “The Titan War in which he overthrew the Titanes and imprisoned them in Tartaros. His battle with Typhoeus, a hundred headed, monstrous giant who attempted to capture heaven. The War of the Giants who attempted to storm Olympos but were slain by Zeus and the gods” (Theoi). Yet, in all of those battles he was never defeated because he was powerful and smart. Cronus was defeated by his son, Zeus. “The war was long and bloody and they all fought ferociously. The war finally ended when the three brothers cornered Cronus” (Gods and Goddess).

In fact, Zeus was told to defeat his father because he was a terrible ruler and his mother said to. Therefore, they are different by how Zeus has never lost and Cronus has, by his own son. Zeus and Cronus are different by how Cronus had to eat his children to ensure his safety, but Zeus didn't have to do that much. Zeus was powerful enough to stay ruler without having to do much because he was a amazing ruler. “Zeus was ever multi-faced and ever intriguing in his rule” (Gods and Goddess). Furthermore, that means that he would do whatever it takes to stay ruler, but he wouldn't eat somebody. Cronus had to eat his children to stay powerful because a prophecy said his children would overthrow him. “To ensure safety Cronus ate each of his children as they were born” (Greek Mythology). Thus proving, he “had” to eat them to stay powerful because he was nervous he wouldn't rule anymore if he didn't eat them. Therefore, Zeus and Cronus are different by how they said they had to stay powerful. In “The Lion King” Simba and Scar have a battle because of how he was ruling the land, and that is why Zeus and Cronus fought.

Zeus and Cronus are different by how Zeus has never been defeated and Cronus has, by Zeus. They are also different by how Cronus had to eat his children and Zeus didn’t have to do a lot to stay powerful. Zeus and Cronus are similar by how they both overthrew their dads to become ruler. They are also similar by how they both punished people when they got mad at them. Zeus and Cronus have similarities and differences because they are father and son and they cannot always get along. Bibliography Zeus Zeus See More Zeus Pictures > Zeus was the god of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods. He overthrew his father, Cronus , and then drew lots with his brothers Poseidon and Hades , in order to decide who would succeed their father on the throne. Zeus won the draw and became the supreme ruler of the gods, as well as lord of the sky and rain. His weapon was a thunderbolt which he hurled at those who displeased or defied him, especially liars and oathbreakers. He was married to Hera but often tested her patience, as he was infamous for his many affairs.

Zeus , the presiding deity of the universe, ruler of the skies and the earth, was regarded by the Greeks as the god of all natural phenomena on the sky; the personification of the laws of nature; the ruler of the state; and finally, the father of gods and men. Using his shield, the Aegis , Zeus could create all natural phenomena related to the air and the sky, such as storms, tempests, and intense darkness. At his command, mighty thunders would flash and lightnings would roll, wreaking havoc; or the skies would open to rejuvenate the earth with life-giving water. As the personification of the operations of nature, he represented the grand laws of unchanging and harmonious order, by which both the natural and the spiritual world were governed. He was the god of regulated time as marked by the changing seasons and the regular succession of day and night, in contrast to what his father Cronus represented before him; absolute time, i.e. eternity. As the ruler of the state, he was the source of kingly power, the upholder of all institutions connected to the state, and the friend and patron of princes, whom he guarded and assisted with his advice and counsel.

He was also the protector of the people, and watched over the welfare of the whole community. As the father of the gods, Zeus ascertained that each deity perform their individual duty, punished their misdeeds, settled their disputes, and acted towards them on all occasions as their all-knowing counsellor and mighty friend. As the father of men, he took a paternal interest in the actions and well-being of mortals . He watched over them with tender solicitude, rewarding truth, charity, and fairness, while severely punishing perjury and cruelty. Even the poorest and most forlorn wanderer could find a powerful advocate in Zeus , for he, as a wise and merciful paternal figure, demanded that the wealthy inhabitants of the earth be attentive to the needs of their less fortunate fellow citizens. Zeus Is also called Jupiter, Dias. Cronus and Zeus Cronus and Zeus The story of Zeus and his father, Cronus, is worthy of some in-depth consideration. In Greek Mythology , Cronus was considered to be the son of heaven (Uranus) and earth (Gaia).

Cronusï¿½ son, Zeus, was known to the ancient Greeks as the King of the Gods, while Cronus was generally considered to be an even more ancient, pre-Hellenic deity, and thus someone seldom worshipped by the ancient Greeks. Cronusï¿½ father, Uranus, meanwhile, had had many children by his mate, Gaia, but the story goes that Uranus hid them in the Earth. Gaia, as might be expected, mourned for her lost children, but she also sought revenge. [Itï¿½s a female thing.] As it turned out, Cronus was the only one of her children willing to risk everything in going up against Uranus. Aided with a harpe, supplied by Gaia, Cronus was able to castrate Uranus -- an act generally interpreted as an event separating heaven from earth. Cronus then became the Lord of his brothers, and, according to myth, shut up the most dangerous of them in Tartarus. He then took for consort his sister, Rhea.

But when he was warned by his parents that his own child would likely overthrow him, he swallowed the first five of Rheaï¿½s offspring -- Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. That is to say, he took all their powers and presence and eclipsed them. With the sixth child, however, Rhea tricked Cronus and gave him a stone to swallow, which he promptly did. [It was not specified as to whether it was a gall or a kidney stone, but Cronus must have been really stoned when he swallowed it, or wouldnï¿½t he have at least noticed?] When the sixth child, Zeus, came of age, he loosed the prisoners of Tartarus, made war on Cronus, and won! In the process, his siblings were freed. Yea. Because of his dietary inclinations, Cronus was frequently identified with the Semitic baalim and Moloch, to whom human sacrifices, particularly of children, were made. In other words, he was not a nice god. This fact might be considered to be relevant. I.e., a god of wrath and vengeance, perhaps?

The stories of Uranus, Cronus, and Zeus (and the rest of the mythologic gang) are the Greek versions, and thus stem from the time frame of the ancient Greeks. In their frame of reference, therefore, Zeus was the current and ruling head, while Cronus was history (in every sense of the word) and Uranus was ancient history (literally!). This is important if one is to consider any connection between the Greek mythology and the far more ancient, Sumerian myths -- the latter including the various members of the Anunnaki , the cadre of Gods and Goddesses . Uranus, the planet, can, for example, be clearly associated with the Sumerian god, Anu (aka heaven), the father of Enki and Enlil . Anu/Uranus was the head honcho of Nibiru, the so-called Twelfth Planet. It might be noted that Anu spent little time on the outpost Earth -- but more than say King George did of the American colonies.

(Curiously enough, thereï¿½s a lot of similarities between the two.) In fact, the act of separating heaven (Anu/Nibiru) from Earth, may be analogous to the American Revolution, where the upstart colonies became independent of England (but where the tie that binds was never completely, irrevocably broken in either case). But if Uranus identifies with Anu, then the question becomes as to which of the Sumerian gods does Cronus compare? The most likely answer appears to be Enlil, who was the head of the Anunnaki council on Earth (the Sumerian version), and thus ï¿½the Lord of his brothersï¿½. Enlil was also not above incorporating (the act of swallowing) as his own the powers of his children -- or for that matter anyone of the same or next generation. Similarly, by this logic, Gaia becomes either the Sumerian Antu or Ki. Antu was the Great Mother Sky goddess, while Ki was considered to be the Sumerian earth goddess, and thus the more logical choice -- depending upon the scholar doing the interpretation of the ancient texts -- for the mother of Enlil.

Rhea is probably equivalent to Ninki, the half sister of Enki (and possibly Enlil). Thus Gaia/Ki helps her son, Enlil/Cronus to overthrow Anu/Uranus. Ki may have had a thing about earth at some point, and could have been jealous of Antu (with both Anu and Antu being sky types). Meanwhile, Rhea/Ninki takes part in the overthrow of Enlil/Cronus, and probably due in part to Ninkiï¿½s horror at Enlilï¿½s actions in allowing humanity (her creation) to drown in the Great Flood and Deluge ! Ninki may also have been willing to take Enkiï¿½s side in the Enki and Enlil rivalry because of Enkiï¿½s saving of Ziusudra/Noah and his family. The overthrow of Cronus/Enlil seems to have been done by Marduk, the eldest son of Enki, who became the Babylonian God, circa 2000 B.C.E..

The occasion was marked in part by the fact that Enlilï¿½s son, Ninurta, had just committed the rather grave gaffe of atom bombing Sodom and Gomorrah into oblivion, and in the process causing the destruction of the Sumerian civilization by radioactive fallout. [And thus providing Ninki/Rhea one more reason for her to be upset with Enlilï¿½s treatment of her human creations. As the Anunnaki like to say, ï¿½Itï¿½s not nice to fool mother Ninki!ï¿½] According to the Sumerian chronicles, Enlil and the Anunnaki gods then flew away like birds abandoning a sinking ship. This was also, likely, the beginning of the Age of Aries -- which by Anunnaki tradition was to be associated with Mardukï¿½s planet, Mars. Marduk is thus the equivalent of the Greek Zeus, even if Enlil was not his father (Enlil was his uncle -- but also the previous generation). [Enki was Mardukï¿½s father.] But when the Age of Aries ended circa 600 B.C.E.

, in all likelihood, so did Mardukï¿½s reign. The Age of Pisces began in its place, and being associated with the planet Neptune, probably brought Enki back in as the head honcho. This does not discount Marduk, or any other of the Anunnaki, still being in the picture, but the turning point of the Sixth Century B.C.E. seems to have instituted the new state of affairs such that the Gods and Goddesses are no longer overtly interfering in the affairs of mankind. The relevance of the Greek myth of Cronus and Zeus -- a myth based on events likely to have happened long before 600 B.C.E. (making it essentially pre-Hellenic), and even in part circa 2000 B.C.E. and before -- is that the question of which Anunnaki will be in charge of the upcoming Age of Aquarius is still up for grabs. Anu/Uranus (Aquarius) may or may not be in the driverï¿½s seat -- the connection between heaven and earth having previously been severed. I.e., Anuï¿½s not coming back, even if his favorite great granddaughter, Inanna may have her own plans.

Meanwhile, Enlil/Cronus seems unlikely to return, as well, what with his son, Ninurta, having done so much damage with the Sodom and Gomorrah fiasco, and Marduk/Zeus having brought the forces of the Anunnaki [in particular, Ninkiï¿½s wrath] to bear against him. Enlil abstaining, of course, could be bad news for any Hebrews still worshipping a vengeful Jehovah/Enlil/Cronus. [Note also that the Sumerian mythology ended with the 2000 B.C.E. demise of the civilization, and thus the mythology/history of events later than 2000 B.C.E. would not have been included in the Sumerian version of whoï¿½s on first in terms of head honcho.] Accordingly, it would seem likely that the Cronus and Zeus myth was a description of what transpired during the Age of Aries and perhaps just prior. But by the time of the Age of Pisces , the Enki card was being played, and neither the Greek nor the Sumerian myths address this latest changing of the guard.

The only remaining question, therefore, is to what extent Enki surplanted Marduk as Zeus, and with Marduk relegated to being one of his sons -- for example, Apollo, as a possibility. But the really big question is whether or not A Once and Future Myth , of something equivalent to it, is the future scenario beginning about 2012 A.D. . Is Enki ready to step down and let someone else take over. Say Ningishzidda , for example? Things could soon become verrrrrry interesting. 1000+ images about Saturn (Cronus in Greek) on Pinterest | Planets, Gaia and Ears of corn Forward Cronus He was the youngest child of Gaea (the earth) and Uranus (the sky). Uranus feared that his children might overthrow him so he confined them within Gaea's (the earth's) huge body. With Gaea's help Cronus overthrew Uranus and became king of the Titans (a race of gods). Cronus had the same fear as his father, so he swallowed his first five children. Rhea, his wife, hid the last child, Zeus, on the island of Crete.

Then she tricked Cronus by giving him a stone wrapped in baby clothes… See More Cronus | Myths of the World Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Myths of the World Wiki No Title No information Cronus or Kronos [1] ( Ancient Greek Κρόνος, Krónos) was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans , divine descendants of Gaia , the earth, and Uranus , the sky. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age , until he was overthrown by his own sons, Zeus , Hades , and Poseidon , and imprisoned in Tartarus . Cronus was usually depicted with a sickle , which was also the weapon he used to castrate and depose Uranus , his father. In Athens , on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion , a festival called Kronia was held in honor 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 harvest . Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn .

Contents Edit Template:Greek myth (Titan) Among Hellenistic scholars in Alexandria and during the Renaissance , Cronus was conflated with the name of Chronos , the personification of " Father Time ", [2] wielding the harvesting scythe. H. J. Rose , A Handbook of Greek Mythology (1928), [3] observed that attempts to give Kronos a Greek etymology have failed. Janda (2010) offers a genuinely Indo-European etymology of "the cutter", from the root *(s)ker- "to cut", motivated by Cronus' characteristic act of "cutting the sky" (or the genitals of anthropomorphic Uranus).

The Indo-Iranian reflex of the root is kar, generally meaning "to make, create" (whence karma ), but Janda argues that the original meaning "to cut" in a cosmogonic sense is still preserved in some verses of the Rigveda pertaining to Indra 's heroic "cutting", like that of Cronus resulting in creation: RV 10 .104.10 Template:IAST "he hit Vrtra fatally, cutting [> creating] a free path" RV 6 .47.4 Template:IAST "he cut [> created] the loftiness of the sky." This may point to an older Indo-European mytheme reconstructed as Template:PIE "by means of a cut he created the loftiness of the sky". [4] A theory debated in the 19th century, and sometimes still offered somewhat apologetically, [5] holds that Kronos is related to "horned", assuming a Semitic derivation from qrn . [6] Robert Brown made the assertion in The Great Dionysiak Myth, 1877. [7] "Kronos signifies 'the Horned one'", the Rev.

Alexander Hislop had previously asserted in The Two Babylons; or, The papal worship proved to be the worship of Nimrod and his wife, [8] Andrew Lang 's objection, that Cronus was never represented horned in Hellenic art, [9] was addressed by Robert Brown, [10] demonstrating that in Semitic usage, as in the Hebrew Bible qeren was a signifier of "power". When Greek writers encountered the Levantine deity El , they rendered his name as Kronos. [11] In Greek mythology and early myths File:Rubens saturn.jpg In ancient myth recorded by Hesiod 's Theogony , Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the universe, Uranus. Uranus drew the enmity of Cronus' mother, Gaia , when he hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-armed Hecatonchires and one-eyed Cyclopes , in Tartarus , so that they would not see the light. Gaia created a great stone sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to persuade them to castrate Uranus.

Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and placed him in ambush. When Uranus met with Gaia, Cronus attacked him with the sickle castrating him and casting his testicles into the sea. From the blood (or, by a few accounts, semen ) that spilled out from Uranus and fell upon the earth, the Gigantes , Erinyes , and Meliae were produced. The testicles produced a white foam from which Aphrodite emerged. [12] For this, Uranus threatened vengeance and called his sons titenes (according to Hesiod meaning "straining ones," the source of the word "titan", but this etymology is disputed) for overstepping their boundaries and daring to commit such an act. In an alternate version of this myth, a more benevolent Cronus overthrew the wicked serpentine Titan Ophion . In doing so, he released the world from bondage and for a time ruled it justly. After dispatching Uranus, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hecatonchires , the Gigantes , and the Cyclopes and set the dragon Campe to guard them.

He and his sister Rhea took the throne of the world as king and queen. This period of Cronus' rule was called the Golden Age , as the people of the time had no need for laws or rules; everyone did the right thing, and immorality was absent. Cronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own son, just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the gods Demeter , Hera , Hades , Hestia , and Poseidon by Rhea, he devoured them all as soon as they were born, to preempt the prophecy. 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. Other children Cronus is reputed to have fathered include Chiron , by Philyra . 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. Rhea kept Zeus hidden in a cave on Mount Ida, Crete .

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. 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. Still other versions of the tale say that Zeus was raised by his grandmother, Gaia. Once he had grown up, Zeus used a poison 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, then the goat, and then his two brothers and three sisters. In other versions of the tale, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the children, or Zeus cut Cronus' stomach open.

After freeing his siblings, Zeus released the Gigantes, the Hecatonchires, and the Cyclopes, who forged for him his thunderbolts. In a vast war called the Titanomachy , Zeus and his brothers and sisters, with the help of the Gigantes, Hecatonchires, and Cyclopes, overthrew Cronus and the other Titans. Afterwards, many of the Titans were confined in Tartarus . Some Titans were not banished to Tartarus . Atlas, Epimetheus, Menoetius, Oceanus and Prometheus are examples of Titans who were not imprisoned in Tartarus following the Titanomachy . Gaia bore the monster Typhon to claim revenge for the imprisoned Titans, though Zeus was victorious. Accounts of the fate of Cronus after the Titanomachy differ. In Homeric and other texts he is imprisoned with the other Titans in Tartarus. In Orphic poems, he is imprisoned for eternity in the cave of Nyx. Pindar describes his release from Tartarus, where he is made King of Elysium by Zeus.

In another version, the Titans released the Cyclopes from Tartarus, and Cronus was awarded the kingship among them, beginning a Golden Age . 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 a Libyan account related by Diodorus Siculus (1st c. BC), Cronus or Saturn, son of Uranus and Titea, is said to have reigned over Italy, Sicily, and Northern Africa. He cites as evidence the heights in Sicily that were in his time known as Cronia. Cronus, joined by the Titans, makes war against and eventually defeats his brother Jupiter, who reigns in Crete, and his brother-in-law Hammon, who reigns at Nysa , an island on the river Triton , somewhere in Africa. Cronus takes his sister Rhea from Hammon, to be his own wife. Cronus in turn is defeated by Hammon's son Bacchus or Dionysius , who appoints Cronus' and Rhea's son, Jupiter Olympus, as governor over Egypt.

Bacchus and Jupiter Olympus then join their forces to defeat the remaining Titans in Crete, and on the death of Bacchus, Jupiter Olympus inherits all the kingdoms, becoming lord of the world. (Diodorus, Book III) Cronus is again mentioned in the Sibylline Oracles , particularly book three, which makes Cronus, 'Titan' and Iapetus , the three sons of Uranus and Gaia, each to receive a third division of the Earth, and Cronus is made king over all. After the death of Uranus, Titan's sons attempt to destroy Cronus' and Rhea's male offspring as soon as they are born, but at Dodona , Rhea secretly bears her sons Zeus, Poseidon and Hades and sends them to Phrygia to be raised in the care of three Cretans. Upon learning this, sixty of Titan's men then imprison Cronus and Rhea, causing the sons of Cronus to declare and fight the first of all wars against them. This account mentions nothing about Cronus either killing his father or attempting to kill any of his children.

El, the Phoenician Cronus Edit When Hellenes encountered Phoenicians and later, Hebrews, they identified the Semitic El , by interpretatio graeca , with Cronus. The association was recorded ca. AD 100 by Philo of Byblos ' Phoenician history, as reported in Eusebius ' Præparatio Evangelica I.10.16. [13] Philo's account, ascribed by Eusebius to the semi-legendary pre- Trojan War Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon , indicates that Cronus was originally a Canaanite ruler who founded Byblos and was subsequently deified. This version gives his alternate name as Elus or Ilus, and states that in the 32nd year of his reign, he emasculated, slew and deified his father Epigeius or Autochthon "whom they afterwards called Uranus". It further states that after ships were invented, Cronus, visiting the 'inhabitable world', bequeathed Attica to his own daughter Athena , and Egypt to Thoth the son of Misor and inventor of writing.

[14] In Roman mythology and later culture File:ForumRomanum.jpg While the Greeks considered Cronus a cruel and tempestuous force of chaos and disorder, believing the Olympian gods had brought an era of peace and order by seizing power from the crude and malicious Titans, the Romans took a more positive and innocuous view of the deity, by conflating their indigenous deity Saturn with Cronus. Consequently, while the Greeks considered Cronus merely an intermediary stage between Uranus and Zeus, he was a larger aspect of Roman religion . The Saturnalia was a festival dedicated in his honor, and at least one temple to Saturn already existed in the archaic Roman Kingdom . His association with the "Saturnian" Golden Age eventually caused him to become the god of "human time", i.e., calendars, seasons, and harvests — not to be confused with Chronos , the unrelated embodiment of time in general. As a result of Cronus' importance to the Romans, his Roman variant, Saturn, has had a large influence on Western culture . The seventh day of the Judaeo-Christian week is called in Latin Dies Saturni ("Day of Saturn"), which in turn was adapted and became the source of the English word Saturday.

In astronomy , the planet Saturn is named after the Roman deity. It is the outermost of the Classical planets (those that that are visible with the naked eye). Argive genealogy in Greek mythology The Greek Mythology - The Twelve Titans and Other Titans - Wattpad The Twelve Titans and Other Titans The following is a list of gods and other divine and semi-divine figures from Greek mythology. The Twelve Titans and Other Titans Ὑπερίων (Hyperíōn) Hyperion Titan of light. With Theia, he is the father of Helios (the sun), Selene (the moon), and Eos (the dawn). Ἰαπετός (Iapetós) Iapetus Titan of mortality and father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius, and Atlas. Κοῖος (Koîos) Coeus Titan of intellect and the axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved. Κρεῖος (Kreîos) Crius The least individualized of the Twelve Titans, he is the father of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses.

Κρόνος (Crónos) Cronus The leader of the Titans, who overthrew his father Uranus only to be overthrown in turn by his son, Zeus. Not to be confused with Chronos, the god of time. Mνημοσύνη (Mnēmosýnē) Mnemosyne Titan of memory and remembrance, and mother of the Nine Muses. Ὠκεανός (Ōceanós) Oceanus Titan of the all-encircling river Oceans around the earth, the font of all the Earth's fresh-water. Φοίβη (Phoíbē) Phoebe Titan of the "bright" intellect and prophecy, and consort of Koios. Ῥέα (Rhéa) Rhea Titan of female fertility, motherhood, and generation. She is the sister and consort of Cronus, and mother of Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia. Τηθύς (Tēthýs) Tethys Wife of Oceanus, and the mother of the rivers, springs, streams, fountains, and clouds.

Θεία (Theía) Theia Titan of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky. She is the consort of Hyperion, and mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos. Θέμις (Thémis) Themis Titan of divine law and order. Other Titans Ἀστερία (Astería) Asteria Titan of nocturnal oracles and falling stars. Ἀστραῖος (Astraîos) Astraeus Titan of dusk, stars, and planets, and the art of astrology. Ἄτλας (Átlas) Atlas Titan forced to carry the sky upon his shoulders by Zeus. Also Son of Iapetus. Αὔρα (Aúra) Aura Titan of the breeze and the fresh, cool air of early morning. Διώνη (Diṓnē) Dione Titan of the oracle of Dodona. Ἠώς (Ēṓs) Eos Titan of the dawn. Ἐπιμηθεύς (Epimētheús) Epimetheus Titan of afterthought and the father of excuses.

Εὐρυβία (Eurybía) Eurybia Titan of the mastery of the seas and consort of Krios. Εὐρυνόμη (Eurynómē) Eurynome Titan of water-meadows and pasturelands, and mother of the three Charites by Zeus. Ἥλιος (Hḗlios) Helios Titan of the sun and guardian of oaths. Κλυμένη (Clyménē) Clymene or Asia Titan of renown, fame, and infamy, and wife of Iapetos.Λήλαντος (Lēlantos) Lelantos Titan of air and the hunter's skill of stalking prey. He is the male counterpart of Leto. Λητώ (Lētṓ) Leto Titan of motherhood and mother of the twin Olympians, Artemis and Apollo. Μενοίτιος (Menoítios) Menoetius Titan of violent anger, rash action, and human mortality. Killed by Zeus.

Μῆτις (Mē̂tis) Metis Titan of good counsel, advice, planning, cunning, craftiness, and wisdom. Mother of Athena. Ὀφίων (Ophíōn) Ophion An elder Titan, in some versions of the myth he ruled the Earth with his consort Eurynome before Cronus overthrew him. Πάλλας (Pállas) Pallas Titan of warcraft. He was killed by Athena during the Titanomachy. Πέρσης (Pérsēs) Perses Titan of destruction and peace. Προμηθεύς (Promētheús) Prometheus Titan of forethought and crafty counsel, and creator of mankind. Σελήνη (Selḗnē) Selene Titan of the moon. Στύξ (Stýx) Styx Titan of the Underworld river Styx and personification of hatred. Zeus Zeus by Ron Leadbetter Zeus, the youngest son of Cronus and Rhea , he was the supreme ruler of Mount Olympus and of the Pantheon of gods who resided there.

Being the supreme ruler he upheld law, justice and morals, and this made him the spiritual leader of both gods and men. Zeus was a celestial god, and originally worshiped as a weather god by the Greek tribes. These people came southward from the Balkans circa 2100 BCE. He has always been associated as being a weather god, as his main attribute is the thunderbolt, he controlled thunder, lightning and rain. Theocritus wrote circa 265 BCE: "sometimes Zeus is clear, sometimes he rains". He is also known to have caused thunderstorms. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad he sent thunderstorms against his enemies. The name Zeus is related to the Greek word dios, meaning "bright". His other attributes as well as lightning were the scepter, the eagle and his aegis (this was the goat-skin of Amaltheia ). Before the abolition of monarchies, Zeus was protector of the king and his family. Once the age of Greek kings faded into democracy he became chief judge and peacemaker, but most importantly civic god. He brought peace in place of violence and Hesiod (circa 700 BCE) describes Zeus as "the lord of justice".

Zeus was also known as "Kosmetas" (orderer), "Soter" (savior), "Polieos" (overseer of the polis, city) and "Eleutherios" (guarantor of political freedoms). His duties in this role were to maintain the laws, protect suppliants, to summon festivals and to give prophecies (his oldest and most famous oracle was at Dodona , in Epirus, northwestern Greece). As the supreme deity Zeus oversaw the conduct of civilized life. But the "father of gods and men" as Homer calls him, has many mythological tales. His most famous was told by Hesiod in his Theogony, of how Zeus usurped the kingdom of the immortals from his father. This mythological tale of Zeus' struggle against the Titans ( Titanomachy ) had been caused by Cronus, after he had been warned that one of his children would depose him. Cronus knowing the consequences, as he had overthrown his father Uranus .

To prevent this from happening Cronus swallowed his newborn children Hestia , Demeter , Hera , Hades and Poseidon , but his wife Rhea (who was also his sister) and Gaia her mother, wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes in place of the infant Zeus. Cronus thinking it was the newborn baby swallowed the stone. Meanwhile Rhea had her baby taken to Crete, and there, in a cave on Mount Dicte, the divine goat Amaltheia suckled and raised the infant Zeus. When Zeus had grown into a young man he returned to his fathers domain, and with the help of Gaia, compelled Cronus to regurgitate the five children he had previously swallowed (in some versions Zeus received help from Metis who gave Cronus an emetic potion, which made him vomit up Zeus' brothers and sisters). However, Zeus led the revolt against his father and the dynasty of the Titans, defeated and then banished them. Once Zeus had control, he and his brothers divided the universe between them: Zeus gaining the heavens, Poseidon the sea and Hades the underworld. Zeus had to defend his heavenly kingdom.

The three separate assaults were from the offspring of Gaia: they were the Gigantes , Typhon (Zeus fought them with his thunder-bolt and aegis) and the twin brothers who were called the Aloadae . The latter tried to gain access to the heavens by stacking Mount Ossa on top of Mount Olympus, and Mount Pelion on top of Mount Ossa, but the twins still failed in their attempt to overthrow Zeus. As he did with the Titans, Zeus banished them all to " Tartarus ", which is the lowest region on earth, lower than the underworld. According to legend, Metis, the goddess of prudence, was the first love of Zeus. At first she tried in vain to escape his advances, but in the end succumbed to his endeavor, and from their union Athena was conceived. Gaia warned Zeus that Metis would bear a daughter, whose son would overthrow him. On hearing this Zeus swallowed Metis, the reason for this was to continue to carry the child through to the birth himself. Hera (his wife and sister) was outraged and very jealous of her husband's affair, also of his ability to give birth without female participation.

To spite Zeus she gave birth to Hephaestus parthenogenetically (without being fertilized) and it was Hephaestus who, when the time came, split open the head of Zeus, from which Athena emerged fully armed. Zeus had many offspring; his wife Hera bore him Ares , Hephaestus, Hebe and Eileithyia , but Zeus had numerous liaisons with both goddesses and mortals. He either raped them, or used devious means to seduce the unsuspecting maidens. His union with Leto (meaning the hidden one) brought forth the twins Apollo and Artemis . Once again Hera showed her jealousy by forcing Leto to roam the earth in search of a place to give birth, as Hera had stopped her from gaining shelter on terra-firma or at sea. The only place she could go was to the isle of Delos in the middle of the Aegean, the reason being that Delos was, as legend states, a floating island. Besides deities, he also fathered many mortals. In some of his human liaisons Zeus used devious disguises.

When he seduced the Spartan queen Leda , he transformed himself into a beautiful swan, and from the egg which Leda produced, two sets of twins were born: Castor and Polydeuces and Clytemnestra and Helen of Troy. He visited princess Danae as a shower of gold, and from this union the hero Perseus was born. He abducted the Phoenician princess Europa , disguised as a bull, then carried her on his back to the island of Crete where she bore three sons: Minos , Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon. Zeus also took as a lover the Trojan prince Ganymede . He was abducted by an eagle sent by Zeus (some legends believe it was Zeus disguised as an eagle). The prince was taken to Mount Olympus, where he became Zeus' cup-bearer. Zeus also used his charm and unprecedented power to seduce those he wanted, so when Zeus promised Semele that he would reveal himself in all his splendor, in order to seduce her, the union produced Dionysus , but she was destroyed when Zeus appeared as thunder and lightening.

Themis , the goddess of justice bore the three Horae , goddesses of the seasons to Zeus, and also the three Moirae , known as these Fates. When Zeus had an affair with Mnemosyne , he coupled with her for nine consecutive nights, which produced nine daughters, who became known as the Muses . They entertained their father and the other gods as a celestial choir on Mount Olympus. They became deities of intellectual pursuits. Also the three Charites or Graces were born from Zeus and Eurynome . From all his children Zeus gave man all he needed to live life in an ordered and moral way. Zeus had many Temples and festivals in his honor, the most famous of his sanctuaries being Olympia, the magnificent "Temple of Zeus", which held the gold and ivory statue of the enthroned Zeus, sculpted by Phidias and hailed as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". Also the Olympic Games were held in his honor. The Nemean Games, which were held every two years, were to honor Zeus. There were numerous festivals throughout Greece: in Athens they celebrated the marriage of Zeus and Hera with the Theogamia (or Gamelia).

The celebrations were many: in all, Zeus had more than 150 epithets, each one being celebrated in his honor. In art, Zeus was usually portrayed as bearded, middle aged but with a youthful figure. He would look very regal and imposing. Artists always tried to reproduce the power of Zeus in their work, usually by giving him a pose as he is about to throw his bolt of lightening. There are many statues of Zeus, but without doubt the Artemisium Zeus is the most magnificent. It was previously thought to be Poseidon, and can be seen in the Athens National Archaeological Museum. Article details: Greek Stories about Zeus-The Birth of Zeus, the King of the Gods The Birth of Zeus, the King of the Gods The Birth of Zeus, the King of the Gods A Birth Story Zeus was born by the Titans Cronus and Rhea . Cronus was notorious for being a very jealous and greedy deity. Out of the fear one of his children could take his throne, Cronus swallowed every child Rhea was giving birth to. However, when Rhea gave birth to her last child, Zeus, she managed to trick Cronus with the help of the Titans Uranus and Gaea .

She gave her husband a rock in swaddling clothes to swallow, as a substitution to her child, and sent Zeus away to the Greek island of Crete. Special daemons named "Curetes" made noise by hitting their shields, so that Cronus would to not hear the cries of the baby. Zeus was raised secretly by the Nymphs and was fed with honey and milk from the goat nurse Amaltheia with the help of her broken-off horn. Soon came the day where Zeus was mature enough to claim the Kingdom of the World and he started a battle against his father and the Titans. This battle is also known as "Titanomachy". First, Zeus managed to liberate his elder brothers and sisters from his father's stomach by giving him a special herb and making him disgorge. Then, with the help of his siblings, Zeus overthrew the Titans in the depths of the Underworld, the Tartarus. After overthrowing his father Cronus, Zeus was confronted with the Giants and also the monster Typhon , which he both defeated successfully. Time had come for the Kingdom of the World to be in the hands of Zeus and his siblings!

Justly, Zeus drew lots with his brothers Poseidon and Hades to let luck determine who would become the new King of the Gods. Zeus won the draw and he officially became the ruler of the Earth and the Sky and the Lord of Mount Olympus , the highest mountain of Greece. Search Cronus - mythical fables world myths ‎ > ‎ Greek mythology ‎ > ‎ mythic history ‎ > ‎ Greek pantheon ‎ > ‎ Cronus Cronus /ˈkroʊnəs/ or both Cronos and Kronos /ˈkroʊnɒs/ (Greek: Κρόνος [krónos]) was in Greek mythology the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of Uranus, the sky and Gaia, the earth. He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. Cronus was usually depicted with a Harpe, Scythe or a Sickle, which was the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father.

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 harvest. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn. In ancient myth recorded by Hesiod's Theogony, Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the universe, Uranus. Uranus drew the enmity of Cronus' mother, Gaia, when he hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-handed Hecatonchires and one-eyed Cyclopes, in the Tartarus, so that they would not see the light. Gaia created a great stone sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to persuade them to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and placed him in ambush. When Uranus met with Gaia, Cronus attacked him with the sickle, castrating him and casting his testicles into the sea.

From the blood that spilled out from Uranus and fell upon the earth, the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae were produced. The testicles produced a white foam from which the goddess Aphrodite emerged.[2] For this, Uranus threatened vengeance and called his sons Titenes (Τιτῆνες; according to Hesiod meaning "straining ones," the source of the word "titan", but this etymology is disputed) for overstepping their boundaries and daring to commit such an act. (In an alternate version of this myth, a more benevolent Cronus overthrew the wicked serpentine Titan Ophion. In doing so, he released the world from bondage and for a time ruled it justly.) After dispatching Uranus, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hecatonchires, and the Cyclopes and set the dragon Campe to guard them. He and his sister Rhea took the throne of the world as king and queen. The period in which Cronus ruled was called the Golden Age, as the people of the time had no need for laws or rules; everyone did the right thing, and immorality was absent.

Cronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own sons, just as he had overthrown his father. 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. 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. (Another child Cronus is reputed to have fathered is Chiron, by Philyra.) Painting by Peter Paul Rubens of Cronus devouring one of his children, Poseidon 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. Rhea kept Zeus hidden in a cave on Mount Ida, Crete.

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. 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. Still other versions of the tale say that Zeus was raised by his grandmother, Gaia. 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. In other versions of the tale, Metis gave Cronus an emetic to force him to disgorge the children, or Zeus cut Cronus' stomach open.

After freeing his siblings, Zeus released the Hecatonchires, and the Cyclopes who forged for him his thunderbolts, Poseidon's trident and Hades' helmet of darkness. In a vast war called the Titanomachy, Zeus and his brothers and sisters, with the help of the Hecatonchires, and Cyclopes, overthrew Cronus and the other Titans. Afterwards, many of the Titans were confined in Tartarus, however, Atlas, Epimetheus, Menoetius, Oceanus and Prometheus were not imprisoned following the Titanomachy. Gaia bore the monster Typhon to claim revenge for the imprisoned Titans. Accounts of the fate of Cronus after the Titanomachy differ. In Homeric and other texts he is imprisoned with the other Titans in Tartarus. In Orphic poems, he is imprisoned for eternity in the cave of Nyx. Pindar describes his release from Tartarus, where he is made King of Elysium by Zeus. In another version[citation needed], the Titans released the Cyclopes from Tartarus, and Cronus was awarded the kingship among them, beginning a Golden Age.

In Virgil's Aeneid[citation needed], it is Latium to which Saturn (Cronus) escapes and ascends as king and lawgiver, following his defeat by his son Jupiter (Zeus). One other account referred by Robert Graves (who claims to be following the account of the Byzantine mythographer Tzetzes) it is said that Cronus was castrated by his son Zeus just like he had done with his father Uranus before. However the subject of a son castrating his own father, or simply castration in general, was so repudiated by the Greek mythographers of that time that they suppressed it from their accounts until the Christian era (when Tzetzes wrote). In a Libyan account related by Diodorus Siculus (1st century BC), Cronus or Saturn, son of Uranus and Titea, is said to have reigned over Italy, Sicily, and Northern Africa. He cites as evidence the heights in Sicily that were in his time known as Cronia.

Cronus, joined by the Titans, makes war against and eventually defeats his brother Jupiter, who reigns in Crete, and his brother-in-law Hammon, who reigns at Nysa, an island on the river Triton, somewhere in Africa. Cronus takes his sister Rhea from Hammon, to be his own wife. Cronus in turn is defeated by Hammon's son Bacchus or Dionysus, who appoints Cronus' and Rhea's son, Jupiter Olympus, as governor over Egypt. Bacchus and Jupiter Olympus then join their forces to defeat the remaining Titans in Crete, and on the death of Bacchus, Jupiter Olympus inherits all the kingdoms, becoming lord of the world. (Diodorus, Book III) Cronus is again mentioned in the Sibylline Oracles, particularly book three, which makes Cronus, 'Titan' and Iapetus, the three sons of Uranus and Gaia, each to receive a third division of the Earth, and Cronus is made king over all.

After the death of Uranus, Titan's sons attempt to destroy Cronus' and Rhea's male offspring as soon as they are born, but at Dodona, Rhea secretly bears her sons Zeus, Poseidon and Hades and sends them to Phrygia to be raised in the care of three Cretans. Upon learning this, sixty of Titan's men then imprison Cronus and Rhea, causing the sons of Cronus to declare and fight the first of all wars against them. This account mentions nothing about Cronus either killing his father or attempting to kill any of his children. While the Greeks considered Cronus a cruel and tempestuous force of chaos and disorder, believing the Olympian gods had brought an era of peace and order by seizing power from the crude and malicious Titans, the Romans took a more positive and innocuous view of the deity, by conflating their indigenous deity Saturn with Cronus. Consequently, while the Greeks considered Cronus merely an intermediary stage between Uranus and Zeus, he was a larger aspect of Roman religion. The Saturnalia was a festival dedicated in his honour, and at least one temple to Saturn already existed in the archaic Roman Kingdom.

His association with the "Saturnian" Golden Age eventually caused him to become the god of "time", i.e., calendars, seasons, and harvests—not now confused with Chronos, the unrelated embodiment of time in general; nevertheless, among Hellenistic scholars in Alexandria and during the Renaissance, Cronus was conflated with the name of Chronos, the personification of "Father Time", wielding the harvesting scythe. As a result of Cronus' importance to the Romans, his Roman variant, Saturn, has had a large influence on Western culture. The seventh day of the Judaeo-Christian week is called in Latin Dies Saturni ("Day of Saturn"), which in turn was adapted and became the source of the English word Saturday. In astronomy, the planet Saturn is named after the Roman deity. It is the outermost of the Classical planets (those that are visible with the naked eye).

Question: In Greek myth who was the leader of the Titans, who overthrew his father Uranus and was then overthrown by his son Zeus?
Answer: CRONUS