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Chronos (; , "time," also transliterated as ''Khronos'' or Latinized as Chronus) is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. ==Mythology== Chronos is a god, serpentine shape in form, with three heads—those of a man, a bull, and a lion. Chronos and his daughter and consort called, serpentine Ananke (Inevitability), circled the primal world egg in their coils and split it apart to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky. Chronos was confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, due to the similarity in name, the Titan Cronus already in antiquity,〔''LSJ'' entry: (Κρόνος )〕 the identification becoming more widespread during the Renaissance, giving rise to the allegory of "Father Time" wielding the harvesting scythe. He was depicted in Greco-Roman mosaics as a man turning the Zodiac Wheel. Chronos, however, might also be contrasted with the deity Aion as Eternal Time〔Doro Levi, "Aion," ''Hesperia'' 13.4 (1944), p. 274.〕 (see aeon). Chronos is usually portrayed through an old, wise man with a long, grey beard, similar to Father Time. Some of the current English words whose etymological root is ''khronos/chronos'' include chronology, chronometer, chronic, anachronism, and chronicle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chronos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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