Zeus and his Olympians were now the rulers of the world. During the Titanomachy, the “battle against the Titans”, the Titans were defeated and locked away in the depths of Tartaros, the chasm in the Underworld. His own son, Zeus, would eventually start a war to overthrow Kronos and the other Titans.
Kronos, too, was destined to be overthrown by one of his own progeny.
Kronos and his divine siblings established themselves as rulers of the cosmos.īut in Greek mythology, history has a tendency to repeat itself. Having lured his father into a false sense of security, Kronos had sprung a trap and literally emasculated Ouranos, who cursed his offspring, the Titans. Kronos was “devious-devising” because he had managed to overthrow his father, Ouranos (Uranus), using a ruse. He is, as Homer memorably refers to him, “the son of devious-devising Kronos” ( Il. At the centre of the ancient Greek pantheon stands Zeus, the god of the sky and lightning.
