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== 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<ref>[http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/titanomachy_2.htm About.com's Ancient/Classical History section] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623122139/http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/titanomachy_2.htm |date=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..."''</ref> 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 [[Greek underworld|Hades]] called [[Tartarus]].

As the least individualized among the Titans,<ref>"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."</ref> he was overthrown in the [[Titanomachy]]. [[Martin Litchfield West|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]], [[Phoebe (Titaness)|Phoebe]]—whose name [[Apollo]] assumed with the oracle—and [[Themis]].<ref>M.L. West, "Hesiod's Titans," ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'' '''105''' (1985), pp. 174–175.</ref> Among possible further interpolations among the Titans was Crius, whose interest for Hesiod was as the father of [[Perses (Titan)|Perses]] and grandfather of [[Hecate]], for whom Hesiod was, according to West, an "enthusiastic evangelist".