ABSTRACT
The process maintains the archetype's general structure, even though one of the main themes may take precedence as a result of circumstances that focus attention on some aspect of the basic myth. Cronos, the son of Uranus and father of Zeus, stands on the threshold between two eras, the one that began with Chaos and the one introduced by Zeus. It is situated on the Islands of the Blest, on the shores of Ocean, in the same area that Hesiod had already chosen for the afterlife of heroes with exceptional destinies. His presentation of the myth of the Golden Age depicts the ideal way of life as lived by mortals under the direct rule of the god. The Pythagorean version of the myth, which had finally eradicated the sombre aspect of Cronos by placing him at the end of the spiritual development of the pure.
