Chronos - The Greek God of Time

In the Greek myths, Cronus (or Kronos) was the god of time. He was the son of Uranus, Sky and Gaia, Earth and he ruled all the gods of Olympus until he heard a prophecy that one of his children would overthrow him. He was afraid to lose his power and so he devoured each of his offspring as soon as they were born. But his wife Rhea hid the youngest, Zeus, on the island of Crete and fed him a stone wrapped in cloth instead. When he grew up, he forced his father to regurgitate his brothers and sisters and led them in a ten year war against the Titans. In the end, according to different versions of the story, he was either imprisoned in Tartarus or made King of Elysium where heroes and virtuous men were buried.

It's easy to confuse Chronos, the personification of Time in Greek mythology and the source of our word Chronological, with his father Kronos, a Titan who was the father of Zeus. But they are not the same and the confusion has been around for two thousand years, since Hesiod wrote his Theogony about the genealogy of the gods.