Cronos
Also known as: wily Cronos · Family: Titans · Role: god · First appears: Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 1
In Part 1 of Hesiod’s Works and Days, Cronos is named as the father of Zeus. In Part 1 of the Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite, he is also named as the father of Hestia and, with Rhea, of Hera.
In Part 2 of Hesiod’s Works and Days, Zeus released Cronos from his bonds. In The War of the Titans, Cronos took the shape of a horse and lay with Philyra, and Cheiron was born a centaur.
Relationship record
Life events
- Zeus released Cronos from his bonds.(Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 2)
- With: Zeus
- “for the father of men and gods released him from his bonds.”
- Cronos lay with Philyra, and Cheiron was born as a centaur.(The War of the Titans)
Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 1
- child: Zeus “Zeus the son of Cronos”
Hesiod’s Works and Days · Part 2
- child: Zeus “Zeus the son of Cronos made yet another, the fourth, upon the fruitful earth”
Homeric Hymn I · To Dionysus
- child: Zeus “The Son of Cronos spoke and nodded with his dark brows.”
Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 4
- child: Zeus “but rather increase forthwith for men the fruit that gives them life.’”
Homeric Hymn IV · To Hermes · Part 1
- child: Zeus “There the son of Cronos used to lie with the rich-tressed nymph, unseen by deathless gods and mortal men”
Homeric Hymn IV · To Hermes · Part 3
- child: Zeus “Soon they came, these lovely children of Zeus, to the top of fragrant Olympus, to their father, the Son of Cronos;”
Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 1
- child: Hestia “She was the first-born child of wily Cronos and youngest too , by will of Zeus who holds the aegis,—a queenly maid whom both Poseidon and Apollo sought to wed.”
- child: Zeus “Even the heart of Zeus, who delights in thunder, is led astray by her; though he is greatest of all and has the lot of highest majesty, she beguiles even his wise heart whensoever she pleases, and mates him with mortal women, unknown to Hera, his sister and his wife, the grandest far in beauty among the deathless goddesses—most glorious is she whom wily Cronos with her mother Rhea did beget:”
- child: Hera “Even the heart of Zeus, who delights in thunder, is led astray by her; though he is greatest of all and has the lot of highest majesty, she beguiles even his wise heart whensoever she pleases, and mates him with mortal women, unknown to Hera, his sister and his wife, the grandest far in beauty among the deathless goddesses—most glorious is she whom wily Cronos with her mother Rhea did beget:”
Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 2
- child: Zeus “And she went to ask the dark-clouded Son of Cronos that he should be deathless and live eternally”
Homeric Hymn XV · To Heracles the Lion-hearted
- child: Zeus “when the dark-clouded Son of Cronos had lain with her.”
Homeric Hymn XVIII · To Hermes
- child: Zeus “Ever she avoided the throng of the blessed gods and lived in a shadowy cave, and there the Son of Cronos used to lie with the rich-tressed nymph at dead of night, while white-armed Hera lay bound in sweet sleep: and neither deathless god nor mortal man knew it.”
Homeric Hymn XXIII · To the Son of Cronos, Most High
- child: Zeus “Son of Cronos”
Homeric Hymn XXIX · To Hestia
- child: Hestia “Hail, Daughter of Cronos, and you also, Hermes, bearer of the golden rod!”
Homeric Hymn XXXII · To Selene
- child: Zeus “Once the Son of Cronos was joined with her in love; and she conceived and bare a daughter Pandia, exceeding lovely amongst the deathless gods.”
Homeric Hymn XXXIII · To the Dioscuri
- child: Zeus “the dark-clouded Son of Cronos”
Homer’s Epigrams
- child: Zeus “But a blazing fire makes a house look more comely upon a winter’s day, when the Son of Cronos sends down snow.”
The War of the Titans
- child: Cheiron “The author of the War of the Giants says that Cronos took the shape of a horse and lay with Philyra, the daughter of Ocean. Through this cause Cheiron was born a centaur: his wife was Chariclo.”
- courtship with Philyra “The author of the War of the Giants says that Cronos took the shape of a horse and lay with Philyra, the daughter of Ocean.”
The Cypria · Part 1
- child: Zeus “For Nemesis tried to escape him and liked not to lie in love with her father Zeus the Son of Cronos;”
The Little Iliad
- child: Zeus “...the vine which the son of Cronos gave him as a recompense for his son.”
The Battle of Frogs and Mice · Part 2
- child: Zeus “So then said the son of Cronos.”
The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2
- child: Zeus “But with a blazing fire a house looks worthier upon a wintry day when the Son of Cronos sends down snow.”
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.