| rdfs:comment | - Crius was one of the elder Titans, sons of Ouranos and Gaia. Led by Kronos, the brothers conspired against their father and prepared an ambush for him as he descended to lie with Earth. Krios, Koios, Hyperion and Iapetos were posted at the four corners of the world where they seized hold of the Sky-god and held him firm, while Kronos, hidden in the centre, castrated him with a sickle.
- His name means "Ram" and he was associated with the start of the season, because of the constellation Aries which, in Greek mythology, was associated with ram or golden ram. Aries is known for the start of the spring in the northern hemisphere. Crius was also known as the Pillar of the South pole. He and with his brothers; Iapetus, Hyperion and Coeus, represented the pillars of cardinal points where they held down Uranus as Cronus castrated him.(the heavens) and Gaea (the earth) apart.
- In Greek mythology, Crius, Kreios or Krios (ancient Greek: Κρεῖος, Κριός) was one of the Titans in the list given in Hesiod's Theogony, a son of Uranus and Gaia. The least individualized among them, 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, Koios, Phoibe, whose name Apollo assumed with the oracle, and Themis. Among possible further interpolations among the Titans was Kreios, whose interest for Hesiod was as the father of Perses and grandfather of Hekate, for whom Hesiod was, according to West, an "enthusiastic evangelist".
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| abstract | - Crius was one of the elder Titans, sons of Ouranos and Gaia. Led by Kronos, the brothers conspired against their father and prepared an ambush for him as he descended to lie with Earth. Krios, Koios, Hyperion and Iapetos were posted at the four corners of the world where they seized hold of the Sky-god and held him firm, while Kronos, hidden in the centre, castrated him with a sickle.
- His name means "Ram" and he was associated with the start of the season, because of the constellation Aries which, in Greek mythology, was associated with ram or golden ram. Aries is known for the start of the spring in the northern hemisphere. Crius was also known as the Pillar of the South pole. He and with his brothers; Iapetus, Hyperion and Coeus, represented the pillars of cardinal points where they held down Uranus as Cronus castrated him.(the heavens) and Gaea (the earth) apart.
- In Greek mythology, Crius, Kreios or Krios (ancient Greek: Κρεῖος, Κριός) was one of the Titans in the list given in Hesiod's Theogony, a son of Uranus and Gaia. The least individualized among them, 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, Koios, Phoibe, whose name Apollo assumed with the oracle, and Themis. Among possible further interpolations among the Titans was Kreios, whose interest for Hesiod was as the father of Perses and grandfather of Hekate, for whom Hesiod was, according to West, an "enthusiastic evangelist". Consorting with Eurybia, daughter of Earth Gaia and Sea Pontus, he fathered Astraios and Pallas as well as Perses. The joining of Astraios with Eos, the Dawn, brought forth Eosphoros, the other Stars and the Winds. Joined to fill out lists of Titans to form a total that made a match with the Twelve Olympians, Crius was inexorably involved in the eleven-year-long war between the Olympian gods and Titans, the Titanomachy, however without any specific part to play. When the war was lost, Crius/Kreios was banished along with the others to the lower level of Hades called Tartarus.
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