What was Kronos famous for and what does the name itself mean?

Answer 1

Interesting question!

Kronos Greek form of Cronus.
Cronus latinized form of the Greek Κρονος (Kronos), possibly derived from κορωνη (korone) meaning "crow". Cronus was the Titan who fathered the Greek gods. As his wife Rhea gave birth to the gods, Cronus swallowed them fearing a prophecy that said he would be overthrown by one of his children. However Rhea hid her last child Zeus from his father, and eventually he forced Cronus to disgorge his siblings. Cronus and the rest of the Titans were then defeated by the gods and exiled.
http://www.behindthename.com/name/cronus

KRONOS: Original Greek form of Latin Cronus, possibly meaning "horn."
http://www.20000-names.com/male_k_names_3.htm#KRONOS

In Athens, on the twelfth day of every month (Hekatombaion), a festival called Kronia was held in honor of Cronus to celebrate the harvest. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn.

The etymology of the name is obscure. It may be related to "horned", suggesting a possible connection with the ancient Indian demon Kroni or the Levantine deity El. In the Alexandrian and Renaissance periods there was some confusion with the word χρόνος, Chronos, meaning time.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Cronus

Answer 2

Kronos is another name for the Saturn. The deity is not the same as Chronos, which is a deity associated with Time. The last 2 posts preceding mine correctly explain who Kronos was. Although Kronos in Greek culture was considered to be a kind of defeated deity, his Roman counterpart, Saturn, was much revered and celebrated as the initiator of a Golden Age. In the Enneads, the philosopher Plotinus equates Uranus with the transcendent idea of God, Saturn with the personal God, and Zeus with the God fueling the life of the phenomenological world. These are not separate gods to Plotinus, though; they are a trinity of aspects of a single Godhead.

Answer 3

Kronos, also spelled Chronos, was the King of the Titans, and IIRC, the Father of Zeus.

Zeus deposed Chronos and imprisoned him and the other Titans, beginning the reigh or the Greek Gods.

Chronos means "Time" in Greek.

I'm working from memory here, not Wikipedia, so I might be remembering incorrectly.

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Answer 4

Cronus Greek Name

Answer 5

Cronus was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine descendants of Gaia, the earth, and Uranus, the sky. He overthrew his father, Uranus, and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his own son, Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus.

Cronus learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own son, just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired the gods Demeter, Hera, Hades, Hestia, and Poseidon by Rhea, he swallowed them all as soon as they were born to preempt the prophecy. When the sixth child was born, Zeus, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save them and to eventually get retribution on Cronus for his acts against his father and children. Rhea secretly gave birth to Zeus in Crete, and handed Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, also known as the Omphalos Stone, which he promptly swallowed, thinking that it is his son.

Cronus was the Titan god of time and the ages.
Read more at http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanKronos.html

Answer 6

Kronos was the Greek god of time.

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Answer 7

Time, I think. Wasn't he the Titan who ate his children?

Answer 8

He castrated his daddy. Chronos = time.

Answer 9

Kronos is Satan, and he is famous for being the devil