Alcyoneus
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Isthmean
A giant herdsman 'huge as a mountain,' encountered at Phlegrae and slain by Heracles.
He took Pergamos, and with Telamon’s help he slew the tribes of Meropes, and the herdsman Alcyoneus, huge as a mountain, whom he found at Phlegrae, and he did not keep his hands off the deep-voiced bow-string, not
Nemean
A giant opponent defeated by Heracles and Telamon after felling many chariots and warriors with a hurled rock.
For he looked on a hospitable city, when he came as a friend to friends, to the prosperous court of Heracles, with whom once powerful Telamon destroyed Troy and the Meropes and the great and terrible warrior Alcyoneus, but not before that giant had laid low, by hurling a rock, twelve chariots and twice twelve horse-taming heroes who were riding in them.