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Cronus

Also known as Cronos, Kronos

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos ( or ; ) was the leader and youngest of the Titans, the children of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age until he was overthrown by his son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. According to Plato, however, the deities Phorcys, Cronus, and Rhea were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys.

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Cronus was a powerful figure in ancient Greek mythology—the youngest of the Titans who overthrew his father Uranus to rule during a legendary golden age, only to be later defeated and imprisoned by his own son Zeus. He matters because his story was central to how ancient Greeks understood the origins of their gods and the natural order of the cosmos, illustrating themes of generational conflict and the rise and fall of divine power.

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Deity.type: Greek
Deity.name: Cronus
Deity.god_of: Leader of the Titans
Deity.image: Rhea handing a swaddled stone to Cronus, Attic terracotta pelike, c. 460–450 BC, Met 06.1021.144.jpg (cropped).jpg
Deity.caption: Rhea offers to Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, in place of the newborn Zeus. Red-figure ceramic vase, c. 460–450 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Deity.script_name: Ancient Greek
Deity.planet: Saturn
Deity.battles: Titanomachy
Deity.symbol: Grain, sickle, scythe
Deity.consort: Rhea
Deity.parents: Uranus and Gaia
Deity.offspring: Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera, Zeus, Chiron
Deity.predecessor: Uranus
Deity.successor: Zeus
Deity.Roman_equivalent: Saturn
Deity.equivalent1_type: Egyptian
Deity.equivalent1: Geb

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Commons category: Kronos
name in native language: Κρόνος
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Contents

Mythology
Rise to power
King of Gods
Overthrown
Libyan account by Diodorus Siculus
''Sibylline Oracles''
Release from Tartarus
Other accounts
Name and comparative mythology
Antiquity
From the Renaissance to the present
Elus, the Phoenician Cronus
Roman mythology and later culture
Cronus alias Geb in Greco-Roman Egypt
Astronomy
Genealogy
Notes
References
General sources
External links

Cronus was usually depicted with a harpe, scythe, or sickle, which was the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus, his father. Cronus was likely originally a harvest god, which is why in many regions of Greece the month of the harvest was named Cronion after him. 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. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn.