Cronus
deity figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
crooked-counselling Cronus
in the texts
Orations
Titan god, father of Zeus, referenced via epithet.
Come, then, let us describe the character and disposition of the good king, comprehending it in brief as best we may — the man to whom the son of crooked-counselling Cronus gave the sceptre and the ordinances, that he might take counsel for his people.
And what need to speak of human things, where they dare to say of Uranus, and persuade men, that he was mutilated by Cronus, and Cronus by Zeus?
since the king of the gods, the first and eldest, is bound, as they say—if one must believe Hesiod and Homer and other wise men, who say these things about Cronus—and, by Zeus, not having suffered this unjustly at the hands of an enemy, but at the hands of the most just and most dear, plainly because that one did it as a kingly thing and advantageous to him.
Protrepticus
Father of Zeus, reported buried beneath Sicily.
And Philochorus says that in Tenos Poseidon is honoured as a physician, and that Sicily lies upon Cronus, and that he is buried there.