Gigantomachy
“battle against the giants at Phlegra”
event · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
battle of the earth-born men · battle with giants · fight at Phlegra · marched with gods to Phlegra's plain · rout of the giants
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Ion
The mythic war between the Olympian gods and the earth-born giants at Phlegra, during which Earth produced the Gorgon and Athena slew it, the ultimate origin of the poison used against Ion.
This was the name it received, that day she came to do battle for the gods.
the fight at Phlegra waged by giants against the gods.
knowest thou the battle of the earth-born men?
Heracles
The mythical battle in which the Olympian gods, aided by Heracles, defeated the giants at Phlegra.
My son, my own enduring son, that marched with gods to Phlegra’s plain, there to battle with giants and slay them, warrior that he was.
You are sending hell’s confusion against the halls, as once you did on Enceladus.