The Greeks And Cronus: Lord Of The Greek Gods

The greeks and romans believed at first there was the abyss. The first humanoid beings was the Titans then came the giants. (The only ones not to rule the earth.) Last being the gods. Cronus, a Titan was born of Ouranos and Gaia. Cronos was also the youngest of the Titians. (In Roman and Italian he was the eldest.) His children were the Olympians. Hestia goddess of the hearth, Demeter goddess of agriculture, Hera queen of the gods, Hades god of the underworld, Poseidon god of the sea, Zeus king of the gods and god of lightning. Cronus was also called the Lord of time itself. He was said to be able to slow down or speed up a person’s life. So he was worshiped by Greeks and romans because they wanted to live a long life.Cronus became king by

her name was Rhea, Their children were the first of the Greek gods. Cronos heard of talk the he was destined that his children would overthrow him, So Cronus ate each of the children as they were born. This worked until Rhea, tricked Cronus into swallowing a rock instead of Zeus. When he grew up, Zeus fought against Cronus defeating him, and sending him to a prison in the underworld. The first people of the world were the children of Gaia (Mother Earth) and Ouranos (Father Sky). These creatures were very large and manlike, but without human qualities. They had the destructive abilitys like people in the living in a world where it had no been seen. The only thing creating the things of nature were the gods and goddesses. They were unlike anything known to man. Later, Kronos was released from his prison and made the Titan king of the Elysian Islands,Where the blessed dead are. Plato, Euthyphrose (trans. Fowler) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) : "Men believe that Zeus .

So instead of eating the 3 eldest gods she made Cronus eat a rock instead. When the 3 gods fought Cronus they chopped him up. In order to accomplish the disloyal purpose, Gaia gave Cronos a sickle, which has been made by the Telchines. And when Uranus by night approached Gaia longing for love, Cronos came out and choped his father into peices and threw them into the ocean behind him at Drepanum in Achaea. And from the foam which gathered round the severed parts, Aphrodite was born after a long time, but from the drops of flowing blood that fell on Earth the Erinyes were created, who avenge crime and wickedness, and punish those who are guilty of bloodshed within the family. This is how the Titins dethroned their father and first ruler of the Universe, committing the rulership of Cronos, who was the youngest of them all. Having succeeded his father, Cronos brought up the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires, who were kept in Tartarus. But Power changes the mind. So, when Cronos became ruler, he started being evil and seeing evil just like his father he had dethroned and he put his brothers in