Crius
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Crius is a Titan in Greek mythology who, according to Hesiod's Theogony, was the father of Pallas. This would make him the grandfather of Selene in the genealogy where Pallas is her father.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Hesiod's Theogony from the archaic Greek period as one of the Titans.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ourea, Kratos, Old Gods, Dahak, Zeus, Helios, Eos, Selene, Euryphaessa, Leto, Pontus, Hades, Ares, Kraken, Kronos, Atlas
- sibling of
- Theia, Rhea, Tethys, Hyperion, Iapetus, Cronos, Phoebe, Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Coeus, Themis
- aspect of
- Titans
- serves
- Gaea
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“the Pallas, who, according to Hesiod's Theogony, was the son of the Titan Crius”
#19011 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“She lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis, and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.”
#28376 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Crius is awoken by Gabrielle alongside Theia and Hyperion... Krios is left behind to guard Mount Tamalpais... his brother Iapetus, as Bob, tricks him into expressing doubts about serving their mother Gaea”
#40072 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5