The three brothers led a coalition of younger gods and allies in the Titanomachy, the war against the Titans. Poseidon and Hades joined their brother in his rebellion. The potion induced vomited, causing Cronus to expel his children from his stomach. With the help of a Titaness, Metis, Zeus gave his father a powerful purgative. His first act was to disguise himself as a cupbearer to free his siblings. When Zeus was grown, he returned to challenge his father. Cronus was tricked into swallowing a stone instead, and his youngest son grew up in hiding. Only Zeus was spared, because his mother and Gaia hid his birth. His three daughters were first, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, followed by two sons, Poseidon and Hades. To prevent this, Cronus swallowed each of his children as soon as they were born. Gaia, the Mother Earth, had warned her son that one of his children would someday defeat him just as he had his own father. Although they had many children, Cronus endeavored to make sure none would grow into adulthood. Despite this, Cronus became the king of the gods because he was the one to overthrow his father, Uranus.Ĭronus married his sister, Rhea. His father was the youngest of the Titans. Poseidon was, like Zeus, a son of Cronus and Rhea. Rather than being just because they shared parents, this was also because of the ways in which the characters developed when Greek religion was in its infancy. Poseidon and his brothers were very similar in both their personalities and the ways in which they were depicted. Zeus’s first action when he was grown was to free his brothers so they could fight by his side. He failed in this, however, because Rhea and Gaia hid the infant Zeus from him. Hoping to ensure that he would never lose power to one of his children, the king of the Titans tried to ensure that they would never grow to challenge him. Like his other siblings, aside from Zeus, Poseidon was swallowed at birth by his father. This made him the brother of Zeus, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. After Zeus grew to manhood he led a revolt against the Titans and succeeded in dethroning Cronus, perhaps with the assistance of his brothers Hades and Poseidon, with whom he then divided dominion over the world.Poseidon was one of the three sons of the Titan Cronus and his sister, Rhea. There he was nursed by the nymph (or female goat) Amalthaea and guarded by the Curetes (young warriors), who clashed their weapons to disguise the baby’s cries. But Rhea, his wife, saved the infant Zeus by substituting a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes for Cronus to swallow and hiding Zeus in a cave on Crete. He was called the father (i.e., the ruler and protector) of both gods and men.Īccording to a Cretan myth that was later adopted by the Greeks, Cronus, king of the Titans, upon learning that one of his children was fated to dethrone him, swallowed his children as soon as they were born. Zeus was regarded as the sender of thunder and lightning, rain, and winds, and his traditional weapon was the thunderbolt. His name may be related to that of the sky god Dyaus of the ancient Hindu Rigveda. Zeus, in ancient Greek religion, chief deity of the pantheon, a sky and weather god who was identical with the Roman god Jupiter. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!. Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.
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