Cronus

Youngest Titan, deposed Uranus, ruled the Golden Age, father of the Olympians.

Parentage

• Uranus
• Gaia

Children

• Hades
• Hestia
• Zeus

Domains

• time and harvest

Powers

• Castrates Uranus and seizes the cosmic kingship
• Swallows each of his children at birth

Epithets

• ἀγκυλομήτης
• Τιτὰν μέγας
• ὕψιστος

Relations

• sibling: Coeus
• sibling: Crius
• sibling: Hyperion
• sibling: Iapetus
• sibling: Mnemosyne
• sibling: Oceanus
• sibling: Phoebe
• sibling: Rhea
• sibling: Tethys
• sibling: Theia
• sibling: Themis
• sibling: The Erinyes
• interpretatio: El
• interpretatio: Baal Hammon

Sources

• Hesiod, Theogony 137, 453-467