Similarities Between Cronus And The Lightning Thief

The story begins with Gaea giving birth to Uranus’ children. He was not proud of them so they decided to throw them in a pit in the underworld. Gaea sent The titans to get her children back from the underworld, but they did not save them because they were monstrous. There was a prophecy that Cronus would be overpowered by his children.The prophecy did not come true. The myth of Cronus decided to marry his sister Rhea. She had children and Cronus swallowed all of them except Zeus with Rhea hid to keep him safe. Zeus tricked his father into throwing up his siblings with a potion made of Mustard and wine. Zeus dethroned his father, but cronus became supreme god. The theme that connects the Cronus Myth and The lightning thief is Fate and Prophecy because in the Cronus Myth there was a Prophecy that cronus’ children would overpower and overthrow him. In percy jackson and The Lightning thief there was a prophecy that Percy would fail to save his mother.

The theme in the Cronus myth is a A Quest or Completion of a Task.“ convincing Cronus to drink a potion (usually said to be a combination of mustard and wine), which caused him to vomit back the children he had swallowed.”This matches the theme because Zeus was sent to get his siblings back. He
the theme of percy Jackson is supernatural or non-human characters because of the weird characters. The theme of the Cronus Myth is A Quest or completion of a task because multiple times a character in the Myth completed a task to achieve a certain goal.Myths still matter because it is apart of many different cultures around the world.Greek myths matter because they influence people to write or creatively.I believe Rick Riordan chosen to include the Myth in the novel because cronus was talking to Percy through his dreams. Percy is the son of Poseidon, so maybe Poseidon and Kronos have a