Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Rhea.
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Rhea Presents the Swaddled Stone to Cronus (relief)
Unknown (Roman), c. 2nd century AD
Roman-era relief depicting the pivotal trick of the succession myth as told in Hesiod's Theogony. Rhea hands her husband Cronus a stone swaddled in cloth in place of the newborn Zeus; the deceived Titan swallows the stone, and the future king of the gods is spirited away to be raised in secret.
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Rhea (moon)
Saturn's second-largest moon took the Titaness' name — Rhea orbiting the Roman Cronus, mother of gods among the rings.
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Rhea (mythology)
The mother who hid Zeus from Cronus remains the mythic type of the protective parent — Rhea as the stone in the swaddling clothes.