In recent centuries he is usually depicted as an
elderly bearded man, sometimes with wings, dressed in a robe and carrying a scythe and an
hourglass or other timekeeping device (which represents time's constant one-way movement,
and more generally and abstractly, entropy). He is used in allegory, as a god of myth and mythology, etc.
As an image Father Time's origins are curious. The ancient Greeks themselves began to associate
chronos, their word for time, with the agricultural god Cronos, who had the attribute of a harvester's sickle.
The Romans equated Cronos with Saturn, who also had a sickle, and was treated as an
old man, often with a crutch. The wings and hourglass were early Renaissance additions and
he eventually became a companion of the
Grim Reaper, personification of Death, often taking his scythe. (Wikipedia)