Gigantes (giants)
Immortals
Gigantes (giants)
- The Hekatoncheires (Ἑκατόγχειρες), or Centimanes (Latin), the Hundred-Handed Ones, giant gods of violent storms and hurricanes. Three sons of Uranus and Gaea, each with their own distinct characters
.Briareus or Aigaion (Βριάρεως), The Vigorous
- Cottus (Κόττος), The Furious
- Gyges (Γύγης), The Big-
Limned
- Agrius
(Ἄγριος), a man-eating Thracian giant who was half-man and half-bear
- Alcyoneus
(Ἀλκυονεύς), the king of the Thracian giants, who was slain by Heracles
- Aloadae
(Ἀλῳάδαι), twin giants who attempted to storm heavenOtos (Ότος)
- Antaeus
(Ἀνταῖος), a Libyan giant who wrestled all visitors to the death until he was slain by Heracles
- Argus Panoptes
(Ἄργος Πανόπτης), a hundred-eyed giant tasked with guarding over Io
- Cyclopes
(Elder), three one-eyed giants who forged the lightning-bolts of ZeusArges (Ἄργης)
- Cyclopes
(Younger), a tribe of one-eyed, man-eating giants who shepherded flocks of sheep on the island of Sicily
- Polyphemus (Πολύφημος), a cyclops who briefly captured Odysseus and his men, only to be overcome and blinded by the hero
- Enceladus
(Ἐγκέλαδος), one of the Thracian giants who made war on the gods
- The
Gegenees (Γηγενέες), a tribe of six-armed giants fought by the Argonauts on Bear Mountain in Mysia
- Geryon
(Γηρυών), a three-bodied, four-winged giant who dwelt on the red island of Erytheia
- The
Laestrygonians (Λαιστρυγόνες), a tribe of man-eating giants encountered by Odysseus on his travels
- Orion
(Ὠρίων), a giant huntsman whom Zeus placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion
- Porphyrion
(Πορφυρίων), the king of the Gigantes who was struck down by Heracles and Zeus with arrows and lightning-bolts after he attempted to rape Hera
- Talos
(Τάλως), a giant forged from bronze by Hephaestus, and gifted by Zeus to his lover Europa as her personal protector
- Tityos
(Τίτυος), a giant slain by Apollo and Artemis when he attempted to violate their mother Leto.
- Typhon
(Τυφῶν), a monstrous immortal storm-giant who was defeated and imprisoned in the pits of Tartarus
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