In Greek mythology, Criasus (Ancient Greek Κρίασος) is an early king of Argos, son of Argus and Evadne (or the Oceanid Peitho), who succeeded his father and — in Apollodorus' catalogue — reigned in the Inachid line before Phorbas. Eusebius' synchronisms give him a long reign and place Moses' birth in his time.
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I.Son and successor of Argus
Apollodorus (2.1.2) counts Criasus among the sons Argus begat on Evadne daughter of Strymon — with Ecbasus, Piras, and Epidaurus — and says Criasus succeeded to the kingdom. Hyginus (Fabulae 145) agrees on Argus and Evadne as parents. Later lists give him Melantho as wife and children Phorbas, Ereuthalion, and Cleoboea; Phorbas succeeds him.
Eusebius synchronises a fifty-four-year reign with Assyrian and Sicyonian kings and dates Moses' birth to his time — chronographic colour, not atlas lens fact.
II.Homonym care
Criasus is this early Argive Inachid alone (id criasus-argive). Distinct from later Argive kings in the Anaxagorid–Sthenelid reunification (e.g. cylarabes-sthenelid).