Key Info

- King of the Titans 

- Rule was considered a "Golden Age" 

- Overthrew his father Uranus 

- Was overthrown by his son Zeus

Brief Bio

Cronus was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (Father Sky). He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age until he was overthrown by his son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus.

Cronus was usually depicted with a harpe, scythe, or sickle, which was the instrument he used to defeat and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a patron of the harvest. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn.