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23-606: [REDACTED] Look up krios in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Krios may refer to: People and figures Crius , (Ancient Greek: Κρεῖος ) a figure in Ancient Greek mythology Krio people , an ethnic group in Sierra Leone Vangelis Krios (born 1973) Greek soccer player Places Krios (star) , the star HD 240429 , which

46-510: A helmet of darkness. Fighting on the other side allied with Cronus were the other Titans with the important exception of Themis and her son Prometheus who allied with Zeus ( NB. for Hesiod , Clymene is the mother of Prometheus). Atlas was second in command after Cronus. The war lasted ten years, but eventually Zeus and the other Olympians won. Zeus had the important Titans imprisoned in Tartarus much like Cronus did to his father, and

69-682: 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

92-564: Is also known as the War of the Titans , Battle of the Titans , Battle of the Gods , or just the Titan War . The war was fought to decide which generation of gods would have dominion over the universe; it ended in victory for the Olympian gods. Greeks of the classical age knew of several poems about the war between the gods and many of the Titans. The dominant one, and the only one that has survived,

115-460: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Crius Although "krios" was also the ancient Greek word for "ram", the Titan's chthonic position in the underworld means no classical association with Aries , the ram of the zodiac , is ordinarily made. At the time of Ancient Greece, Aries was the first visible constellation in the sky at

138-462: Is in a wide binary system with star HD 240430 Aries (constellation) , also sometimes called Krios Krios (stream) , (Greek: Κριός ) a stream in Aigeira, Achaea, Greece Krios, Evros , Thrace, Greece; a village Krios, a fictional planet first mentioned in the 1992 Star Trek episode " The Perfect Mate " See also [ edit ] Krio (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

161-647: Is the Theogony attributed to Hesiod . The Titans also played a prominent role in the poems attributed to Orpheus . Although only scraps of the Orphic narratives survive, they show differences from the Hesiodic tradition. The stage for the Titanomachy was set after the youngest Titan Cronus overthrew his own father, Uranus (Ουρανός, the sky and ruler of the cosmos), with the help of his mother, Gaia (Γαία,

184-671: The Titanomachy ( / ˌ t aɪ t ə ˈ n ɒ m ə k i / ; Ancient Greek : Τιτανομαχία , romanized :  Titanomakhía , lit.   'Titan-battle', Latin : Titanomachia ) was a ten-year series of battles fought in Ancient Thessaly , consisting of most of the Titans (the older generation of gods, based on Mount Othrys ) fighting against the Olympians (the younger generations, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus ) and their allies. This event

207-476: The Hecatonchires were made their guards. Atlas was given the special punishment of holding up the sky. In some accounts, when Zeus became secure in his power he relented and gave the Titans their freedom. Hyginus relates the Titanomachy differently: "After Hera saw that Epaphus , born of a concubine, ruled such a great kingdom (Egypt), she saw to it that he should be killed while hunting, and encouraged

230-578: The Ruler of the Titans. But Uranus cursed Cronus so that Cronus's own children would rebel against his rule, just as Cronus had rebelled against his own father. Uranus' blood that had spilled upon the earth gave rise to the Gigantes , Erinyes , and Meliae . From the mixture of blood and semen from his mutilated genitalia, Aphrodite arose from the sea where they landed in Cyprus. ...so soon as he had cut off

253-411: The Titans to drive Zeus from the kingdom and restore it to Cronus ( Saturn ). When they tried to mount heaven, Zeus with the help of Athena , Apollo , and Artemis , cast them headlong into Tartarus. On Atlas, who had been their leader, he put the vault of the sky; even now he is said to hold up the sky on his shoulders." The Iliad describes how following their victory, the three brothers divided

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276-650: The Titans, to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the adamantine sickle and positioned him in the same crevice that previously held his sickle. When Uranus met to consort with Gaia on Mount Othrys, Cronus ambushed Uranus, and with the adamantine sickle, sliced off his genitals, casting them across the Mediterranean . After doing so, Cronus freed the imprisoned Hecatonchires and Cyclopes, by slicing open Gaia's womb and promptly imprisoned them in Tartarus . Cronus also quickly imprisoned Uranus deep below Tartarus. In doing this, he became

299-491: The Titans. Zeus then waged a war against his father with his disgorged brothers and sisters as allies: Hestia , Demeter , Hera , Hades , and Poseidon . Zeus released the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes from the earth (where they had been imprisoned by Cronus) and they allied with him as well. The Hecatonchires hurled stones. The Cyclopes forged for Zeus his iconic thunder and lightning, for Poseidon his trident and for Hades

322-530: The brothers (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades) were called to intervene. A somewhat different account of the Titanomachy appeared in a poem that is now lost. The poem was traditionally ascribed to Eumelus of Corinth , a semi-legendary bard of the Bacchiadae ruling family in archaic Corinth , who was treasured as the traditional composer of the Prosodion , the processional anthem of Messenian independence that

345-454: The complement of Titans from the core group—adding three figures from the archaic tradition of Delphi , Coeus , and Phoibe , 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". Titanomachy In Greek mythology ,

368-456: The earth). Uranus drew the enmity of Gaia when he imprisoned six of her children — the three Hecatonchires (giants with 50 heads and 100 arms) and the three Cyclopes (also giants, each with a single eye in the middle of its forehead) — within her womb. Gaia created a great sickle , forged from adamantine, and hid it in a crevice on Mount Othrys . Gaia then proceeded to attempt to convince 12 of her other children from Uranus, who were known as

391-466: The end of his rule, now turned into the tyrant his father Uranus had once been, swallowing each of his children whole as they were born from his sister-wife Rhea . Rhea, who began to resent Cronus, managed to hide her youngest newborn child Zeus , by tricking Cronus into swallowing a magnetite rock, given to her by her mother Gaia, wrapped in a blanket instead. Rhea brought Zeus to a cave in Crete , where he

414-404: The members with flint and cast them from the land into the surging sea, they were swept away over the main a long time: and a white foam spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in it there grew a maiden..." Cronus took his father's title of ruler of land, sky, and sea. He then secured his power by forcing his siblings to bow down to his will. Cronus, paranoid of Uranus's curse and fearing

437-515: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Krios . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Krios&oldid=1254453088 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text Articles containing Greek-language text Short description

460-450: The spring season, marking the start of the new year in the ancient Greek calendar. According to Hesiod , with Eurybia , daughter of Gaia ("Earth") and Pontus ("Sea"), he fathered Astraios , Pallas , and Perses . The joining of Astraios with Eos , the Dawn, brought forth Eosphoros , Hesperus , Astraea , the other stars, and the winds . Joined to fill out lists of Titans to form

483-558: The world amongst themselves: Zeus was given domain over the sky and the air and was recognized as ruler (also known as the Sky Father). Poseidon was given the sea and all the waters, whereas Hades was given the Underworld, the realm of the dead. Each of the other gods were allotted duties according to the nature and proclivities of each. The earth was left common to all to do as they pleased, even to run counter to one another, unless

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506-481: Was performed on Delos . Even in Antiquity, many authors cited Titanomachia without an author's name. The name of Eumelos was attached to the poem as the only name available. From the very patchy evidence, it seems that "Eumelos"' account of the Titanomachy differed from the surviving account of Hesiod's Theogony at salient points. It was written in the late seventh-century BC at the earliest. The Titanomachy

529-516: Was raised by Amalthea and the Meliae. Upon reaching adulthood, Zeus masqueraded as Cronus' cupbearer. Once he had been established as a servant of Cronus, the Oceanid Metis gave Zeus a mixture of mustard and wine which would cause Cronus to vomit out his swallowed children, now grown. After freeing his siblings as well as the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes, Zeus led them in rebellion against

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