His wife, Rhea, was desperate to save her children. She hid Zeus, her sixth son, on the island of Crete and gave Cronus a large stone wrapped in a swaddle to swallow instead. When Zeus grew ...

with only Zeus escaping thanks to his mother Rhea's efforts to hide him. Zeus eventually struck back at his father and saved his siblings, banishing Cronus to Tartarus after the Titanomachy.