Cronus

unpopular Gods is God of the Underworld. Hades had an interesting family, crazy history, mythical features but slim to no celebrations. Paragraph #2- Family/Relatives Hades has many very interesting relatives and desires. His mother Rhea, and father Cronus had six children, so it was a big family. Hades is the oldest male out of his two brothers, Poseidon and Zeus. Hades is the ruler of the Underworld and precious metals and stones. For example, Poseidon, the second oldest, is the ruler of…

Uranus the primal Greek god personifying the sky. His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus. In Ancient Greek literature, Uranus or Father Sky was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether as his father. Uranus and Gaia were the parents of the first generation of Titans, and the ancestors of most of the Greek gods, but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times, and…

first Greek gods. They helped the Greek explain natural phenomena like earthquakes and development of tools and how to heat their homes. The Titans were best known for the being the children for Uranus and Garia. They had twelve children 6 male Coeus, Cronus, Crius, Hyperion, Lapetus, Oceanus and 6 females Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Theia, Themis and Tethys. They were a powerful race that ruled the world before the Olympias. The Titans ruled the world during the legendary Golden Age. The Titans…

The section I read was How the World and Mankind Were Created by Edith Hamilton. It starts off with a brief explanation like the rest of the book does with sources and inside this section a variety of different stories. Chapter III’s context comes mainly from Hesiod, a greek poet with myths about the beginning of everything. The premise of my selected reading discusses how the world and mankind were created. The first story starts off with saying before the gods there was Chaos and unexplainably…

Cronus was told that he was bound to get overthrown by his sons like he overthrew his father and he ate his children.They had Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, and Zeus but all of them were swallowed by Cronus but were still living in his stomach. On the other hand, when Zeus was about to be born, he was replaced with a rock that was wrapped around with cloths by Rhea so Zeus wouldn’t get eaten. Cronus did swallow the rock but nothing happened to…

story of Zeus. Zeus’ father Cronus ate all of his kids as his wife Rhea birthed them. Rhea finally had enough and hid baby Zeus and fed her husband a rock instead. Lucky for me my father did not eat me or my siblings but I was born with a strange mark at the bottom of my neck thought to be a scale…

At a time when the Giants and the Furies are fighting, Titan Cronus, father of Zeus, finds out one of his children will defeat and dethrone him so he started eating every child of his that was born. His wife Rhea feels bad and saves one child-Zeus. Soon Zeus grows up and makes Cronus vomit his siblings. Together, Zeus and his siblings defeat the Titans and took over the Universe. Zeus becomes the King of the Heavens, Sky, and Wind giving his brothers Poseidon and Hades their respective roles. He…

against her husband. She made a flint sickle and asked her children to use it against their father, Uranus. The only child that wasn’t too afraid of his father to complete the task was Cronus. Gaea and Cronus then set up an attack on Uranus. It was to be at night as Uranus slept next Gaea that night. Cronus grabbed his father, castrated him, and threw the severed parts of his body into the ocean. Nobody knows if Uranus died, withdrew himself from Earth, or hid himself in Italy. As he left…

ever. Rhea´s most famous story is about her six children. Cronus ate all of them except Zeus. He ate all of them because Rhea's parents, Uranus and Gaea, told him that one day they will be like him. He overthrew his parents and he didn't want to be overthrown in the future. When Zeus was about to be born Rhea went to her parents for some help on how to save him. Her plan was to give birth to Zeus in Crete and when she handed the baby to Cronus he would eat a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes.…

In this myth it was a struggle for power and to be the most powerful and Cronus was the youngest of the titans and he had wanted to defeat his father and become in his place in the throne .He wanted to kill his dad and the become the new god or ruler of his kingdom or the whole wide world. The theme is that in both stories they want the power and to kill or take over something or some one. Cronus kills his dad and take control of supreme God then is told that one day his kids will try to take…