Kronos

Kronos or Cronus, in Greek religion and mythology, the youngest Titan, son of Uranus and Gaea. With the help of his mother, he led the Titans in the revolt against Uranus and ruled the world. He married his sister Rhea and fathered the great gods—Zeus, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Hestia. Because he was fated to be overthrown by one of his children, he swallowed them all as infants until Rhea hid Zeus and presented Kronos with a stone wrapped in a blanket, which he ate. Later Zeus tricked him into disgorging his children. Zeus then led the Olympian gods in overthrowing Kronos in the battle called the Titanomachy, described by Hesiod. Kronos and all the defeated Titans, except Atlas, were exiled. Kronos is equated with the Roman Saturn and was probably a god of a pre-Hellenic people.

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In Greek religion, a male agricultural deity. He was the youngest of the 12 Titans borne by Uranus and Gaea, and his castration of his father separated heaven from earth. With his sister and consort Rhea, he fathered Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon, all of whom he swallowed because he had been warned that he would be overthrown by his own child. Rhea hid his son Zeus and tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone; Zeus later forced Cronus to disgorge the others and then vanquished him in war. He was identified with the Roman god Saturn.

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Kronos can refer to:

• Cronus, a Titan, the father of Zeus

In computing

• Kronos (computer), a secret 32-bit graphical workstation developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s.
• KRONOS, an operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by the Control Data Corporation in the 1970s
• Kronos Incorporated, a workforce management software and hardware company

In entertainment

• Kronos Quartet, a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973
• Kronos (band), a brutal death metal band from France
• Kronos (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe

In film and television

• Kronos (film), a 1957 science fiction film
• Kronos (Highlander), a fictional character from Highlander: The Series, portrayed by actor Valentine Pelka
• In The Incredibles, the plot concocted by Syndrome, the supervillain of the film
• Qo'noS, the Klingon homeworld in the fictional Star Trek universe
• In The Time Monster, a creature from outside time that feeds on time itself
• In the Guyver (OVA), the name of the secretive company that creates the Zoanoids- which are the sworn enemies of the Guyver units.

In academia

• Kronos: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Synthesis, published between 1975-1988

In video games

• In Age of Mythology: The Titans, a character with the ability to time-shift buildings
• In God of War (video game), the last Titan and the cruel father of Zeus
• The English name of Miktran, a character in Tales of Destiny.
• The name of a character in The Last Express, played by Mujahid Abdul-Rashid.

See also

• Chronos (disambiguation)
• Khronos