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.

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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

parent of
Pallas, Perses
aspect of
Titans
allied with
Hyperion, Theia
enemy of
Olympians, Tartarus
serves
Gaea
child of
Gaia, Uranus

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Sources

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