what did rhea do to her sixth son
Rhea (mythology)
According to Hesiod , Cronus sired six children by Rhea : Hestia , Demeter , Hera , Hades , Poseidon , and Zeus in that order . Gaia and Uranus told Cronus that just as he had overthrown his own father , he was destined to be overcome by his own child ; so as each of his children was born , Cronus swallowed them . Rhea , Uranus and Gaia devised a plan to save the last of them , Zeus . Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete , and gave Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes , which he promptly swallowed ; Rhea hid her infant son Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida . Her attendants , the warrior - like Kouretes and Dactyls , acted as a bodyguard for the infant Zeus , helping to conceal his whereabouts from his father . According to Plato , Phorcys , Cronus and Rhea were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys . 
According to Hesiod , Cronus sired six children by Rhea : Hestia , Demeter , Hera , Hades , Poseidon , and Zeus in that order . Gaia and Uranus told Cronus that just as he had overthrown his own father , he was destined to be overcome by his own child ; so as each of his children was born , Cronus swallowed them . Rhea , Uranus and Gaia devised a plan to save the last of them , Zeus . Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete , and gave Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes , which he promptly swallowed ; Rhea hid her infant son Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida . Her attendants , the warrior - like Kouretes and Dactyls , acted as a bodyguard for the infant Zeus , helping to conceal his whereabouts from his father . According to Plato , Phorcys , Cronus and Rhea were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys .
Rhea gave birth to Zeus, her sixth son, in Crete, and hid her infant son Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida.  Her attendants, the warrior - like Kouretes and Dactyls, acted as a bodyguard for the infant Zeus, helping to conceal his whereabouts from his father.
According to Hesiod , Cronus sired six children by Rhea : Hestia , Demeter , Hera , Hades , Poseidon , and Zeus in that order . Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete , and gave Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes , which he promptly swallowed ; Rhea hid her infant son Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida . Her attendants , the warrior - like Kouretes and Dactyls , acted as a bodyguard for the infant Zeus , helping to conceal his whereabouts from his father .