Kronus The Greek God

Zeus was the son of Cronus and Rhea. When Cronus heard someone say that one of his sons would overthrow him just like he did to his father he got very angry and scared. This led to Cronus swallowing each of his children to make sure he stayed in power. Only one of the children got out by having Rhea feed Cronus a stone wrapped in cloth instead of Zeus. After Rhea saved Zeus he left and trained because he would one day come back and overthrow his father and force his to give back his siblings.

However when Zeus was born Rhea took a stone and wrapped it in clothe and Kronos swallowed it. Zeus grew up away from his father and when he grew up he wanted revenge on his father. Zeus was victorious in the battle against the Titans, the Titanomachy. Metis, the daughter of the Titan Okeanos, “Oceans”, made and served Kronos a drink to make him throw up Zeus’ brothers and sisters, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia, they joined forces with Zeus.

Zeus was the youngest of the children born from Kronos and Rhea. Kronos swallowed all of the his children one by one because of an old prophecy he had heard that one of his children will overthrow him. When Rhea found out she was pregnant with Zeus, she was not going to let the same thing happen to him, so she gave birth to Zeus in Crete, and tricked Kronos into swallowing a rock, leading him to believe that it was the baby, making all of the other children come back in reverse order, so now the oldest one is the youngest. This made Zeus to now be the oldest, and the strongest, of all of his siblings, being that he was never swallowed. He is the God of the Sky, and also controls thunder and lightning, which he often uses to his advantage. Zeus plays a huge role in Hesiod’s Theogony, as he is portrayed to of been riddled with bad temper, and we see that a lot in some of the actions he takes through it.

She tricked Cronus to eat a magic herb. Cronus threw up the stone and the children. Zeus other siblings are, the boys or the gods are Hades and Poseidon. Zeus’ sisters or the goddess’ are Hestia.Demeter,and Hera. After that Cronus surrendered and fled. The Titans and and sons revolted. The titans were Prometheus and Epimetheus. Zeus also freed Gaea’s sons from Tartarus. The cyclops made weapons. Zeus had his lightning bolts. Poseidon has his trident. Hades has his cape of invisibility. The Titans lost, they were sent to Tartarus and they are guarded by a monster. Atlas the strongest titan holde the sky up forever. Gaea is angry. Typhor dies, Echidna and gos fled. Zeus turned and threw lightning bolts. The Cyclops built a palace. Which is later name Mt.

“But when Zeus was about to be born, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save him, so that Cronus would get his retribution for his acts against Uranus and his own children. Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronus a wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he promptly swallowed.” (The Birth of

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After she became pregnant with her sixth child, she devised a plan to hide her child in Crete. After giving birth to a baby boy, she gave him the name Zeus, and carried out the plan to hide her son from her cannibalistic husband. After she was positive that Zeus was safe, she went to Cronus and handed him a stone wrapped similar to the way a small newborn would be. Cronus accepted the rock as his child and quickly swallowed it, not even checking to see what was in the cloth. After years of hiding in Crete, Zeus became a full grown Olympian god.

In fear of a prophecy that he would be in turn be overthrown by his own son, Kronos swallowed each of his children as soon as they were born. Rhea his wife, managed to save the youngest, Zeus, by hiding him away on the island of Krete. The god grew up, forced Kronos to disgorge his swallowed offspring, and led the Olympians in a ten year war against the Titans, before driving them defeated into the pit of Tartaros.

In the beginning there was emptiness called Chaos, as well as Earth, Hell, and Love named Eros. Eros was half girl half boy and created the earth named Gaia. Gaia, out of her own fertility, created a male companion named Ouranos, sky (Stone 39). Ouranos and Gaia would begin to create all other creatures of the universe including the massive Titans. Some of their offspring were giant rats and lizards, some only had one eye in the center of their forehead, and others had fifty heads and one hundred arms. Ouranos was disgusted by these deformed creatures and hid them away deep within the earth. Gaia did not agree with this decision and vowed to get revenge upon him. She turned to the Titans for help and promised if one of them would use an adamant sickle against their father they would assume his role as the master of the universe and king of the Titans. Kronos, the largest of the Titans, stepped forward. That same night Kronos snuck up behind his father and cut off his genitals. Kronos raised the genitals in victory spraying blood everywhere. Some of the blood hit Gaia and seeped into her womb (Stone 40). Other drops dripped into Tartarus, the deepest part of the underworld, and created the Furies. Finally, drops would become the Giants of the Earth which would be impervious to death, even by the hands of a god. Although Kronos was now king of the Titans he was told by his mother and father that he would be

In order to rise to power Zeus had to first overthrow the ruler Cronos and the Titans. How he did this was with a clever strategy and with his might. What he did was gather a team of Gods to join his side. Then he made friends with the Cyclopes and other creatures. The combination of the Gods and boulders hurled from the powerful creatures was what led to Zeus becoming the ruler of the Gods.

Cronos, the Olympians’ father, still bore in mind the curse his father had imposed over him. Hence, he decided to ingest all of his children to prevent the curse from coming true. Their names were Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon, and due to the fact that all of the children were immortal, they could not be killed (“The Greek Creation Myth”). Rhea, the Olympian’s mother, was indignant because of what Cronos was doing to her beloved children. Like Gaia, the Titan’s mother, Rhea began a revolution against Cronos by giving him a rock wrapped in clothes rather than her new born baby named Zeus. After having grown, Zeus, guided by Rhea, vanquished his father Cronos liberating his siblings from Cronos’s stomach and becoming the new king of the gods. Right after Cronos’

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When I began to think, and read about Zeus, the Greek God, I was overpowered with information throughout all my assignments and lessons. In the beginning of Zeus’s time, here were some things I’ve acquired back to the beginning of his birthday. For one, Zeus was conceived on an island named Crete. However, Zeus was not conceived wherever or anywhere for that matter, but he was conceived in a surrender on Mount Ida. Although this statement has been made for hundreds of years, it appears some still think differently. Other stories explain that Zeus was born in the Diktaean Cave. Carrying on to Zeus’s story; he had a father named Kronos and his mother’s name was Rhea. Zeus was born into a very

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