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. Poseidon was one of the three sons of the Titan Cronus and his sister, Rhea.
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