Kratos

Kratos ( Greek  Κράτος , power, strength ) is the personification of power and brute force in Greek mythology . In Hyginus , his Latin name is Potestas .

He is a son of Pallas and Styx . His siblings are Zelos , Bia , and Nike .

Like his siblings, he is a constant companion of Zeus , with their father Pallas they fight the Titans in the Titanomachy . Together with Bia, he is tasked with forging Prometheus to the Caucasus, since Prometheus had brought fire to the people.

literature

• Erika Simon : Kratos and Bia. In: Würzburg Yearbooks for Classical Studies . New Series, Volume 1, 1975, pp. 177-186.
• Erika Simon: Bia et Kratos. In: Lilly Kahil (Ed.): Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae . Volume 3.1, Artemis & Winkler, Zurich / Munich 1986, p. 114 f.
• Wilhelm Drexler , Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Κράτος and Βία . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1411 ( digitized version ).
• Julius Tambornino : Kratos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 2, Stuttgart 1922, column 1660.

Web links

• Kratos in the Theoi Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Kerényi : The mythology of the Greeks. CH Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-01345-1 , pp. 33-34.
2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Praefatio.
3. ^ Hesiod , Theogony 383.
4. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 385; Libraries of Apollodorus 1,2,4.
5. ↑ Aeschylus, The Fettered Prometheus 1–62.