Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Wizard101 is a 2008 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by KingsIsle Entertainment. Players take on the role of student wizards who must save the Spiral, the fictional universe in which the game is set, from various threats.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. Ruler of the Titans in Greek mythology Not to be confused with Chronos, the personification of time. For other uses, see Cronus (disambiguation). Cronus Leader of the Titans Rhea offers the stone to Cronus, red-figure ceramic vase c. 460-450 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...
Gaia provided him with the weapon, and when Uranus next came to lie with Gaia, Cronus leapt up and castrated his father, overthrowing him and driving him away forever. Thus, the blade (whether harpe, sickle or scythe) became a symbol of Cronus's power. Hermes, a grandson of Cronus, was said to have slain Argus Panoptes with a harpe to rescue Io.
He was made the ruler of the deities. This new Orphic tradition states that Phanes passed the sceptre to Nyx; Nyx later gave the sceptre to her son Ouranos; Cronus seized the sceptre from his father Ouranos; and finally, the sceptre held by Cronus was seized by Zeus, who holds it at present.
KingsIsle Entertainment was founded in January 2005 by Elie Akilian. [1] Inspired by his teenage son, who was a fan of video games, Akilian established KingsIsle in Plano, Texas, [2] and started hiring former employees of id Software and Ubisoft to work on what would become Wizard101. [1]
In Greek mythology, Cronius (Ancient Greek: Κρόνιον Kronios means "of Cronus" [1]) was the son of the Rhodian nymph Himalia and Zeus. He was the brother of Spartaeus and Cytus. [2] When Cronius and his brothers were still young men, Aphrodite travelling from Cythera to Cyprus, dropped near Rhodes but was prevented by the sons of Poseidon ...
Leto copulated with Zeus (the son of fellow Titans Cronus and Rhea) and bore Artemis and Apollo. Asteria became the mother of Hecate by Perses (son of fellow Titan Crius and half-sister Eurybia). Along with the other Titans, Coeus was overthrown by Zeus and the other Olympians in the Titanomachy.
Eventually Uranus' son, the Titan Cronus, castrated Uranus, freeing his fellow Titans (but not, apparently, the Hundred-Handers), and Cronus became the new ruler of the cosmos. [78] Cronus married his sister Rhea , and together they produced five children, whom Cronus swallowed as each was born, but the sixth child, Zeus, was saved by Rhea and ...