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This article is about the Greek personification. For the main character of God of War, see Kratos. For the Tales of Symphonia character, see Kratos Aurion.


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In Greek mythology, Cratos ("strength") was a son of Styx and Pallas, brother of Nike, Bia and Zelus. He was the personification of strength and power. Cratos and his siblings were all companions of Zeus.

The spelling Kratos would be more faithful to the original Greek spelling, whichh is Κρατος. The Latinized spelling Cratus has also been used.

Kratos simply accepts Zeus' orders completely. Zeus' justice, for Kratos, is the only possible justice. Kratos cannot understand how someone might fail to hate an enemy of Zeus. He shows an absolute identification of a slave with his master, taking Zeus' thoughts as his thoughts and Zeus' orders as his maxims. Unlike Hephaestus and Oceanus, Kratos experiences no friendship or pity because he has no value system outside the one imposed on him by Zeus. The name Kratos means force, so as a representative of Zeus, this character demonstrates the nature of Zeus' rule.

In some accounts, Kratos along with his sister, Bia, were ordered by Zeus to bind Prometheus to a pillar in the Caucasus Mountains at the eastern end of the Black Sea.

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Kratos is the video game character and anti-hero of Sony's God of War series.

Kratos, also known as the Ghost of Sparta, is an original character created by David Jaffe, based and set in Greek Mythology.
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Kratos Aurion is a video game character from the video game Tales of Symphonia, released by Namco for the Nintendo GameCube and Sony PlayStation 2 (the PlayStation 2 version was released in Japan only). His English character is played out by voice actor Cam Clarke.
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    The ancient Greeks proposed many different ideas about the primordial gods in their mythology. The many theogonies constructed by Greek poets each give a different account of which gods came first.
    • In Homer, Ocean and Tethys are the parents of all the gods.

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    Titans (Greek: Τιτάν Titan; plural: Τιτάνες Titanes
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    Twelve Olympians, also known as the Dodekatheon (Greek: Δωδεκάθεον
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      The ancient Greeks had a large number of sea gods. The philosopher Plato once remarked that the Greek people were like frogs sitting around a pond -- their many cities hugging close to the Mediterranean coastline from the Hellenic homeland to Asia Minor, Libya, Sicily and
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      Personified concepts
      • Muses
      • Nemesis
      • Moirae
      • Cratos
      • Zelus
      • Nike
      • Metis
      • Charites
      • Oneiroi
      • Adrasteia
      • Horae
      • Bia
      • Eros
      • Apate
      • Themis
      • Eris
      • Thanatos
      • Hypnos


      Nemesis (in Greek,
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      Personified concepts
      • Muses
      • Nemesis
      • Moirae
      • Cratos
      • Zelus
      • Nike
      • Metis
      • Charites
      • Oneiroi
      • Adrasteia
      • Horae
      • Bia
      • Eros
      • Apate
      • Themis
      • Eris
      • Thanatos
      • Hypnos

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      Personified concepts
      • Muses
      • Nemesis
      • Moirae
      • Cratos
      • Zelus
      • Nike
      • Metis
      • Charites
      • Oneiroi
      • Adrasteia
      • Horae
      • Bia
      • Eros
      • Apate
      • Themis
      • Eris
      • Thanatos
      • Hypnos
      This Zelos

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      Personified concepts
      • Muses
      • Nemesis
      • Moirae
      • Cratos
      • Zelus
      • Nike
      • Metis
      • Charites
      • Oneiroi
      • Adrasteia
      • Horae
      • Bia
      • Eros
      • Apate
      • Themis
      • Eris
      • Thanatos
      • Hypnos
      In Greek mythology, Nike
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        In Greek mythology, Metis was of the Titan generation and, like several primordial figures, an Oceanid, in the sense that Metis was born of Oceanus and Tethys, of an earlier age than Zeus and his siblings.
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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos

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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos
        In Greek mythology, the Oneiroi
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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos
        In Greek mythology, Adrasteia
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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos


        In Greek mythology, the Horae
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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos
        In Greek mythology, Bia
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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos
        In Greek mythology, Eros
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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos
        Apate
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        Themis (Greek: Θέμις) among the six sons and six daughters of Gaia and Uranus, that is, of Earth with Sky. Among these Titans of primordial myth, few were venerated at specific sanctuaries in classical times, and Themis was so ancient that the followers of
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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos
        Eris (Greek
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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos
        In Greek mythology, Thanatos
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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos
        In Greek mythology, Hypnos
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        Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.
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        River Styx" (Στυξ) is a river which formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld, Hades. It circles Hades nine times. The rivers Styx, Phlegethon, Acheron and Cocytus all converge at the center of Hades on a great marsh.
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        For other meanings of Pallas, see Pallas (disambiguation).

        Pallas is a Titan associated with war. His family tree is disputed. Most sources indicate that he was the son of Crius and Eurybia, the brother of Astraeus and Perses, and the husband of Styx.
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        Personified concepts
        • Muses
        • Nemesis
        • Moirae
        • Cratos
        • Zelus
        • Nike
        • Metis
        • Charites
        • Oneiroi
        • Adrasteia
        • Horae
        • Bia
        • Eros
        • Apate
        • Themis
        • Eris
        • Thanatos
        • Hypnos
        In Greek mythology, Nike
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