Kronos
deity figure · 4 works · 10 mentions · 17 anchored passages
son of Kronos · Saturn · mighty Kronos · scheming Kronos
in the texts
Iliad
Titan god, father of Zeus, named repeatedly through the patronymic epithet 'son of Kronos.'
When they reached the quarters of the son of Atreus, Agamemnon sacrificed for them a five-year-old bull in honor of Zeus the son of Kronos.
The sons of the Achaeans shouted approval at the words that Diomedes had spoken, and thereon King Agamemnon said to Idaios, "Idaios, you have heard the answer the Achaeans make you-and I with them.
two of the best men in a district [ dêmos], as men now are, could hardly raise it from the ground and put it on to a wagon, but Hektor lifted it quite easily by himself, for the son of scheming Kronos made it light for him.
Odyssey
Titan father of Zeus, invoked only through the recurring epithet 'son of Kronos' applied to Zeus.
Then Athena said, "Father, son of Kronos, King of kings, it served Aigisthos right, and so it would any one else who does as he did;
And Athena said, "Father, son of Kronos, King of kings, if, then, the gods now mean that Odysseus should get home, we should first send Hermes to the Ogygian island to tell Calypso that we have made up our minds and that he is to have his homecoming [ nostos].
"For six days my men kept driving in the best cows and feasting upon them, but when Zeus the son of Kronos had added a seventh day, the fury of the gale abated;
Birds
The elder god (Saturn/Kronos) invoked as a marker of primordial antiquity that the birds' lineage is said to precede.
Your race is older than Saturn, the Titans and the Earth.
If on the other hand they recognize that you are God, the principle of life, that you are Earth, Kronos, Poseidon, they shall be loaded with benefits.
Barlaam and Josaphat
The first Greek god named in Nachor's critique, said to have devoured his own children and been bound by his son Zeus.
So Zeus bound his own father and threw him into Tartarus.
The first introduced among them before all is the god called Kronos, and to him they sacrifice their own children — he who had many children by Rhea, and going mad devoured his own children.