Cronus

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

Parentage

• father: UranusHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)
• mother: GaiaHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)

Children

• Demeter
• Hades
• Hera
• Hestia
• Poseidon
• Zeus

Domains

• time and harvest

Powers

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

Epithets

• ἀγκυλομήτης greek · ankylometes · literaryOf crooked counsel / crafty; the recurrent Hesiodic epithet of KronosHes. Theog. 137, 168, 473 (Κρόνος ἀγκυλομήτης) (primary)
• Τιτὰν μέγας greek · Titan megas · hymnicThe great Titan; Kronos as the mightiest of the Titan generationOrphic Hymn 13 (to Kronos); cf. Hes. Theog. 207-210 (primary)
• ὕψιστος grc · hypsistos · epithethighest (Kronos in his Golden-Age sovereignty)Hesiod, Works and Days 111-120 (the golden race under Cronus) (primary)

Relations

• sibling: CoeusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: CriusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: HyperionFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: IapetusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: MnemosyneFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: OceanusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: PhoebeFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: RheaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: TethysFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: TheiaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: ThemisFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: The ErinyesFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
• interpretatio: ElPhilo systematically renders El as Kronos. Preserves the aged father-of-gods displaced from active rule; breaks on El's continued benevolent presidency — Kronos is overthrown and bound, El is not.Philo of Byblos apud Eusebius, Praep. ev. 1.10.16, 1.10.29 (Elos who is Kronos) (primary)
• interpretatio: Baal HammonGreek writers call Carthage's supreme god Kronos, via the Tophet child-offering motif matched to Kronos devouring children. Preserves the aged-supreme-father slot; the equation is driven by Greek polemic.Diodorus Siculus 20.14.4-6 (Kronos at Carthage) (primary)
• father: UranusHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)
• mother: GaiaHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)
• counterpart of: SaturnLatin mythographic counterpart of the Greek record; identities and accounts remain distinct.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface; Hesiod, Theogony 453–458, 912–939 (primary)
• counterpart of: KronosThe hymn addresses this deity in an Orphic ritual context; Greek genealogy is not imported.Orphic Hymns, 12 (Thomas Taylor numbering; modern hymn 13) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Hesiod, Theogony 137, 453-467 (primary)