{"id":3073,"date":"2010-06-06T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T21:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cronos\/"},"modified":"2019-12-08T08:46:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T08:46:14","slug":"cronos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cronos\/","title":{"rendered":"Kronos (Cronos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kronos (C<\/strong><strong>ronos)<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>was one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-titans-amended\/\">Titans<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/greek-mythology\/\">Greek mythology<\/a>\u00a0and usually associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cronos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21771 alignleft\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Cronos.png\" alt=\"Cronos\" width=\"220\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>agriculture and frequently portrayed holding a sickle.\u00a0He was the father of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/poseidon\/\">Poseidon<\/a> who received Atlantis as his realm.<\/p>\n<p>Cronos is not to be confused with Chronos the Greek personification of time, remembered today in our language through words such as chronology and chronometer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/diodorus-siculus\/\">Diodorus Siculus<\/a> (Bk.III 61.3) describes Cronos as lord of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> and Italy. This reminds me of Plato\u2019s Atlantis that controlled the Mediterranean as far as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tyrrhenia\/\">Tyrrhennia<\/a> and Libya as far as Egypt <em>&#8220;as well as<\/em> <em>islands&#8221;<\/em> (Timaeus 25b)!<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>It should be noted that outside of the Aegean, the greatest number of island in the Mediterranean is to be found in the Central region.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/schliemann-paul\/\">Paul Schliemann <\/a>launched his Atlantis hoax in 1912, he included a reference to Cronos as \u2018king of the Atlanteans\u2019!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kronos (Cronos)\u00a0was one of the\u00a0Titans of Greek mythology\u00a0and usually associated with agriculture and frequently portrayed holding a sickle.\u00a0He was the father of Poseidon who received Atlantis as his realm. Cronos is not to be confused with Chronos the Greek personification of time, remembered today in our language through words such as chronology and chronometer. Diodorus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2438,2437,965,6197,184,227,280,101,700,2439],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chronus","tag-cronos","tag-diodorus-siculus","tag-islands","tag-libya","tag-paul-schliemann","tag-poseidon","tag-sicily","tag-titans","tag-tyrrhenia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}