Tityus
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Odyssey
Son of Gaia, visited at Euboea by Rhadamanthus in the anecdote Alkinoos tells about his ships' speed.
You can sleep during the whole voyage if you like, and the men shall sail you over smooth waters either to your own home, or wherever you please, even though it be a long way further off than Euboea, which those of my people who saw it when they took yellow-haired Rhadamanthus to see Tityus the son of Gaia, tell me is the furthest of any place - and yet they did the whole voyage in a single day wi …
"And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain and covering some nine acres of ground.
Stromata
Tityus, the giant who assaulted Leto, used as a generational marker contemporary with Tantalus.
and Tityus was contemporary with Tantalus.
De Rerum Natura
Mythological giant punished in the underworld with eternal vulture torment; reinterpreted by Lucretius as anyone consumed by love and unappeased desire in life.
Nor eat the vultures into Tityus
A Tityus is he whom vultures rend
Whom troubles of any unappeased desires