A rebuttal to the Percy Jackson books. The series refers to Kronos as the Lord of Time. This appeared incorrect to me. But then I thought the author is a teacher of Greek Mythology and my memories are from school days and are probably rusted. So I turned to my trusted Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology and I find that Cronos and Chronos are different indeed.

Cronos, the leader of the Titans, is a son of Ouranos (the sky) and Gaia (the earth). He was the presiding deity during the Golden Age. He is the father of Zeus and the other gods. In the war between the gods and the titans, he is finally overthrown and Zeus becomes the presiding god.

Chronos is an older deity and is the personification of time. In a sense he is at the level of Ouranos, a generation before Cronos. There is not much that I could find in terms of myths about him.

Well, my memory served me well! I had an interesting discussion with someone recently about the Percy Jackson books. I mentioned that if one is reasonably familiar with Greek myths, some of the events in the books are predictable. His response was that his daughter was developing an interest in Greek mythology by reading these books. Who knows if these books become well-entrenched, future generations may believe that the Homerian epics are modifications of these books and not vice-versa!