Not to be confused with Cronus, the Titan father of Zeus.
For other uses, see Chronos (disambiguation).
Chronos
Personification of time
Time Clipping Cupid's Wings (1694), by Pierre Mignard
Symbol
zodiac wheel
Offspring
Aether, Phanes, Chaos
Chronos (/ˈkroʊnɒs,-oʊs/; Greek: Χρόνος, [kʰrónos], "time"), also spelled Khronos or Chronus, is a personification of time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature.[1]
Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan, Cronus, in antiquity, due to the similarity in names.[2] The identification became more widespread during the Renaissance, giving rise to the iconography of Father Time wielding the harvesting scythe.[3]
Greco-Roman mosaics depicted Chronos as a man turning the zodiac wheel.[4] He is comparable to the deity Aion as a symbol of cyclical time.[5] He is usually portrayed as an old callous man with a thick grey beard, personifying the destructive and stifling aspects of time.[6]
^LSJ s.v. Κρόνος.
^LSJ s.v. Κρόνος; Meisner, p. 145.
^Macey, p. 209.
^Delaere, p. 97.
^Levi, p. 274.
^Marcus Tullius, Cicero. "De Natura Deorum, § 2.64".
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