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 ==