Kratos’s Family Tree

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Family

• Pallas(parent),Styx(parent),Bia(sibling),Nike(sibling),Zelus(sibling)— Marriage

  The Titan Pallas and the Oceanid Styx produced four children — Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia — who personified zeal, victory, strength, and force respectively.

Allied with

• Bia,Nike,Styx,Zelus,Zeus

  During the Titanomachy, Styx was the first immortal to bring her four children — Kratos, Bia, Nike, and Zelus — to fight for Zeus against the Titans, securing their place as his eternal attendants.

Serves

• Zeus

  Kratos (Strength) served as Zeus's enforcer. In Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Kratos carries out Zeus's order to chain Prometheus to the rock.

Member of

• Daimones

  The daimones, divine spirits personifying abstract forces that shape human experience, included Phobos (fear), Deimos (terror), Kratos (strength), Elpis (hope), and Pistis (trust).

Associated with

• Bia,Hephaestus,Prometheus

  In Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Kratos and Bia escort Prometheus to the Caucasus while Hephaestus reluctantly forges the chains that bind the Titan to the rock.

• Eurybia

  Kratos, the personification of strength, is a grandson of Eurybia through her son Pallas and his wife Styx. Kratos and his siblings became enforcers of Zeus's authority after the Titanomachy.