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Crius

Titan in Greek mythology

Summary

Titan in Greek mythology

Field	Value
type	Greek
name	Crius
member_of	the Titans
script_name	Ancient Greek
script	Κρεῖος
abode	Tartarus
battles	Titanomachy
consort	Eurybia
parents	Uranus and Gaia
siblings	{{Collapsible list
title	Titans
bullets	on
title	Hecatoncheires
bullets	on
title	Cyclopes
bullets	on
title	Other siblings
bullets	on
offspring	Astraeus, Pallas, Perses

In Greek mythology, Crius, Krios or Kreios (; or Κριός) was one of the Titans, the children of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth).

Etymology

Although "krios" was also the ancient Greek word for "ram", the Titan's chthonic position in the underworld means no classical association with Aries, the ram of the zodiac, is ordinarily made. At the time of Ancient Greece, Aries was the first visible constellation in the sky at the spring season, marking the start of the new year in the ancient Greek calendar.

Family

According to Hesiod, with Eurybia, daughter of Gaia ("Earth") and Pontus ("Sea"), he fathered Astraios, Pallas, and Perses. The joining of Astraios with Eos, the Dawn, brought forth Eosphoros, Hesperus, Astraea, the other stars, and the winds.

Mythology

Joined to fill out lists of Titans to form a total matching the Twelve Olympians, Crius was inexorably involved in the ten-year-long war between the Olympian gods and Titans, the Titanomachy, though without any specific part to play. When the war was lost, Crius was banished along with the others to the lower level of Hades called Tartarus.

As the least individualized among the Titans, he was overthrown in the Titanomachy. M. L. West has suggested how Hesiod filled out the complement of Titans from the core group—adding three figures from the archaic tradition of Delphi, Coeus, and Phoebe, whose name Apollo assumed with the oracle, and Themis. Among possible further interpolations among the Titans was Crius, whose interest for Hesiod was as the father of Perses and grandfather of Hecate, for whom Hesiod was, according to West, an "enthusiastic evangelist".

Genealogical tree

Notes

References

Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. .
Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
West, M.L., "Hesiod's Titans", in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 105, pp. 174–175. .

References

link. (2012-02-19[http://www.operone.de/stw/greekad.php?search=%26%238001%3B&operator=and]{{dead link). (December 2017)
[[Hesiod]]. ''[[Theogony]]'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D104 133]; ''[[Brill's New Pauly]]'', [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/crius-e623220 s.v. Crius]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D3 1.1.3].
''[[Brill's New Pauly]]'', [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/crius-e623220 s.v. Crius].
[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D371 375–377]; Grimal, s.v. Perses, p. 359–360.
[http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/titanomachy_2.htm About.com's Ancient/Classical History section] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-06-23 & [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]],'' ''[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D617 617-643]'': ''"So they, with bitter wrath, were fighting continually with one another at that time for ten full years, and the hard strife had no close or end for either side..."'')
"About the other siblings of Kronos no close inquiry is called for," observes Friedrich Solmsen, in discussing "The Two Near Eastern Sources of Hesiod", ''Hermes'' '''117'''.4 (1989:413–422) p. 419. "They prove useful for Hesiod to head his pedigrees of the gods", adding in a note "On [[Koios]] and Kreios we have to admit abysmal ignorance."
M.L. West, "Hesiod's Titans," ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'' '''105''' (1985), pp. 174–175.

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