In Greek mythology, Kratos is the divine personification of strength, the son of the Titan Pallas and the Okeanid nymphe Styx. The mythological Kratos is the divine personification of power and authority. Nonetheless, this superficially simple description belies the somewhat more confusing reality of the exact role that Kratos occupies in Greek mythology.
We normally think of deities as being worshipped, but we have no evidence that Kratos was ever worshipped in ancient Greece as a deity. Likewise, he is virtually never mentioned outside of a mythological or allegorical context. Therefore, although Kratos is described as a deity, he does not seem to have been envisioned as a deity in the same way Zeus or Athena were envisioned as deities; instead, he was seen as more of a personified concept elevated to the level of being a divine being.
He is, in other words, the literal personification of the concept of power itself. The lictors carrying fasces represent the level of imperium the consul possessed. The earliest known mention of Kratos anywhere in ancient Greek literature comes from the poem Theogonia , a long narrative poem about the history of the deities that was composed in around the late eighth or early seventh century by the Greek poet Hesiodos of Askre.
The poem mentions Kratos and his siblings in lines —, which read as follows in the original Greek:. And she gave birth also to Kratos [i. These deities do not have a house far away from Zeus, nor any sitting-place, nor a path except that one by which the deity leads them, but always before loud-thundering Zeus do they dwell. According to this passage from Hesiodos, Kratos is the son of the Titan Pallas and the Okeanid nymphe Styx, his three siblings are Zelos, Nike, and Bia, and he and his siblings dwell eternally with Zeus.
Hesiodos goes on to recount how, after Zeus overthrew his father Kronos in the Titanomachia, he decreed that all deities who had not held positions under Kronos would be given positions in his new regime. Styx and her four children were the first ones to come to Zeus to ask for positions. View source. History Talk 0. Trivia In Greek mythology "Kratos" means "power" or "Strength".
As he is one of the winged enforces alongside his siblings, he is known as a "sky tide" of Zeus. The woman commanded the wolves to drag Kratos to the land of the Norse gods, and while it isn't stated in 's God of War as Kratos and Atreus review a mural with the wolves, the novel reads, " Kratos stared at the beasts with a shiver of recognition. The image of him dressed in his Greek attire, being dragged by a verdant-eyed black wolf while the other flanked either side, flashed like lightning across his mind.
Were those the creatures that had brought him to this land? Kratos, from the development team's reasoning, did not end up in Scandinavia by accident either. In another interview via Destructoid about the details of 's God of War, Barlog discusses his deep dive into Norse mythology, and how the development team could possibly implement their own take:. We're at a prehistory point, where gods did walk the Earth, when monsters were real before they became extinct It's a fun space to be in because it allows us to paint our own image of Norse mythology as opposed to anyone else's.
Unlike Greek mythology, Norse mythology is not as well documented, and this gave the development team the perfect sandbox to reinvent God of War and Kratos into something new without having to restart the franchise. Greek mythology created Kratos, but the characters and creatures in Norse mythology give Kratos the opportunity to develop as a character.
The Norse mythology allowed the God of War development team to implement, and continue, a new story for Kratos where he's attempting to grow from a god who made mistakes and committed atrocities, to a person that he would respect.
Kratos is best known for his role in the story of Prometheus. In this story, Prometheus steals fire from the gods. As punishment for this, Zeus has Kratos and his sister Bia tie Prometheus to a rock, where he will be bound and tortured for all time. In other mythical legends, Kratos usually only appears when others call upon him and his sister during times of battle. Dike, who is the god of justice, also calls upon Kratos from time to time.
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