CHRONOS. - He is the personification of time among the ancient Greeks. He had no importance either in mythology or in cult; he was instead exploited by Orphic cosmogony, which made him the origin of all things, called him the son of Selene or of Heracles, the father of Aion, of Eros (Love), of the Winds, of the Hours.
In the relief of the apotheosis of Homer he is depicted winged, holding in his hand the two scrolls of the Iliad and the Odyssey. The ancients, followed by some modern scholars, wished to identify C. with Cronus, but the hypothesis does not hold.
Bibliography2 worksRoscher, s.v. in W. H. Roscher, Lexicon, I, 1, coll. 899 ff.; Waser, s.v. in Pauly-Wissowa, III, II, col. 2481 ff.
BIBL.: Roscher, s.v. in W. H. Roscher, Lexicon, I, 1, coll. 899 ff.; Waser, s.v. in Pauly-Wissowa, III, II, col. 2481 ff.
Banti, Luisa. “Chronos.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1571. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/chronos.
MLA
Banti, Luisa. “Chronos.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1571. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/chronos.
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@incollection{ec3_chronos,
author = {Banti, Luisa},
title = {Chronos},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1571},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/chronos}
}
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