The Least Drawn of the Titans

Crius (Greek Krios) is one of the twelve first-generation Titans in Hesiod's Theogony, sons and daughters of Uranos and Gaia, and he is the most shadowy of the group, a name in the genealogy with almost nothing attached to it. What little role he has is again that of a father: by Eurybia, a daughter of Pontus (the Sea) and Gaia, he begot Astraeus, Pallas and Perses, minor Titan-gods who in turn father the winds, the stars, and figures such as Nike and Hecate.

Later antiquity, fond of finding the constellations among the old gods, sometimes linked his name (which resembles the Greek word for a ram) with the celestial Ram, Aries, and with the measuring of the heavens, but this is speculative reception rather than early myth. Crius stands as a good example of how the Theogony fills out its map of the cosmos with figures whose whole significance is to connect one generation of divine powers to the next.