Kratos

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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.

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  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.