It is the painting known as Saturn Devouring One of His Sons, by Francisco Goya, an image that has been imprinted on my psyche since I first viewed it in college, in 1969. Critics have called his ...

There are some key differences between what is portrayed in Goya’s painting and the story itself, though. In an ancient poem, Theogony, written by Hesiod, Cronus was said to have swallowed his ...