Giants
group · 9 works · 10 mentions · 12 anchored passages
the Giants · the giants · earth-born men · savage giants · sons of Earth · the giants of the prime · the great Giants
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1 expressionThe Giants5 mentions
On the Nature of the Gods (Latin) · Theogony (Greek) · Helen (Greek) · The Genius of the Common Law (English) · De Carnis Resurrectione (Latin)
nor indeed, as the fables tell, were they without wars and battles — not only as in Homer, when different gods defended two opposing armies from different sides, but even when they waged their own proper wars, as with the Titans, as with the Giants.
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Ion
The mythical brood of Earth depicted in battle against the Olympian gods on the temple's stone carvings.
Bromius too, the god of revelry, is slaying another of the sons of Earth with his thyrsus of ivy, never meant for battle.
Behold the rout of the giants carved on these walls of stone.
knowest thou the battle of the earth-born men?
On the Nature of the Gods
Mythic race who warred against the gods, cited as an example of undignified mythology.
nor indeed, as the fables tell, were they without wars and battles — not only as in Homer, when different gods defended two opposing armies from different sides, but even when they waged their own proper wars, as with the Titans, as with the Giants.
Theogony
Great armed beings born from the blood of Heaven's castration, described with gleaming armor and long spears.
for all the bloody drops that gushed forth Earth received, and as the seasons moved round she bore the strong Erinyes and the great Giants with gleaming armour, holding long spears in their hands and the Nymphs whom they call Meliae all over the boundless earth.
Odyssey
A race once ruled by Eurymedon and later invoked by Alkinoos as beings unusually close to the gods.
Periboia was the youngest daughter of Eurymedon, who at one time reigned over the giants, but he ruined his ill-fated people and lost his own life to boot.
They come and sit at our feasts just like one of our selves, and if any solitary wayfarer happens to stumble upon some one or other of them, they affect no concealment, for we are as near of kin to the gods as the Cyclopes and the savage giants are.
Helen
Mythic race the gods once fought together, invoked as a point of comparison to the war fought over Helen.
For they themselves engaged in a far greater and more terrible struggle than when they fought the Giants;
De Rerum Natura
The mythological Giants who warred against the gods and were punished.
Pay the huge penalties for monstrous crime,
(After the manner of the Giants), should all
Symposium
A race of mythical beings previously destroyed by the gods with thunderbolts, cited as a precedent the gods avoid repeating on the round humans.
for they felt they could not slay them like the Giants, whom they had abolished root and branch with strokes of thunder—it would be only abolishing the honors and observances they had from men;
The Genius of the Common Law
Mythic collective representing the archaic, formalistic guardians of early law, figured as clearing the way for civilized justice.
’ The giants of the prime are stark and grim figures in our sight, yet their force cleared a way for the Gods through chaos, and without them the Gods would never have come to Valhalla.
De Carnis Resurrectione
The legendary Giants, whose ancient corpses are cited as evidence that bodily frames can endure over vast time.
But neither will it be established that the most ancient corpses of the Giants are devoured, whose frames yet live.