Editing Kronia (section)

== Details from ancient sources==
The [[Theatre of ancient Rome|Roman playwright]] [[Lucius Accius|Accius]] says that to celebrate the ''Kronia'', "In nearly all fields and towns they happily feast upon banquets, and everyone waits upon his own servants."{{refn|name=Accius-fragm|{{cite book |author=[[Lucius Accius]] |article=fragment&nbsp;3 |title={{grey|[{{small|no title?}}]}} |postscript=;}} cited in Bremmer (2008).<ref name=Bremmer-2008/>{{rp|page=38}} [[Lucius Accius|Accius]]' purpose is to claim the Kronia as an influence on the Roman [[Saturnalia]].<ref name=Bremmer-RelAncWld/>{{efn|The Saturnalia was held in honor of [[Saturn (mythology)|Saturn]], the [[interpretatio graeca|Roman's equivalent]] of [[Cronus|Kronos / Cronus]].}} }} Slaves and the free, rich and poor, all dined together and played games.{{efn|Kronia games included [[Dice#History|dice]] ''(kyboi)'', [[knucklebones]] ''(astragaloi)'', and the board game ''[[pessoi]]''.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} }}

The freedom from work and social [[egalitarianism]] enjoyed on the day represented the conditions of the mythical [[Golden Age]], when [[Cronus|Kronos (Cronus)]] still ruled the world.<ref name=Graf-RelAncWld/> In the Golden Age, the earth had spontaneously supported human life, and since labor was unneeded, slavery had not existed.{{efn|name=Accius_desc_timepoint|The festivities are also described by the Roman-era Greek writer [[Lucian]],{{refn|name=Accius-fragm}} who was probably describing the Saturnalia of his day rather than the Attic-Ionic Kronia.}}  William Hansen describes the Golden Age of Kronos as "a period of thorough harmony in which hierarchical, exploitative, and predatory relationships were nonexistent."{{nobreak|<ref name=Hansen-2002/>{{rp|pages=385, 391&nbsp;[note 34]}} }}

The ''Kronia'' was a time for social restraints to be temporarily forgotten. Slaves were released from their duties, and participated in the festivities alongside the slave-owners. Slaves were "''permitted to run riot through the city, shouting and making a noise''."<ref name=Burkert-1985/> Other than the ''Kronia'', there is only limited evidence of religious devotion to [[Cronus|Kronos (Cronus)]].<ref name=Bremmer-2008/>{{rp|page=83}}