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    Giants

    group · 12 works · 13 mentions · 18 anchored passages

    the Giants · the giants · aboriginal giants · earth-born men · king of the Giants · savage giants · sons of Earth · sons of the dragon's teeth · the giants of the prime · the great Giants

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    The 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.
    book 2

    in the texts

    IonClassical · Greek

    The mythical brood of Earth depicted in battle against the Olympian gods on the temple's stone carvings.

    Behold the rout of the giants carved on these walls of stone.
    ion
    Bromius too, the god of revelry, is slaying another of the sons of Earth with his thyrsus of ivy, never meant for battle.
    ion
    knowest thou the battle of the earth-born men?
    ion

    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    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.
    book 2

    TheogonyClassical · Greek

    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.
    theogony

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    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.
    chapter 7
    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.
    chapter 7

    HelenClassical · Greek

    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;
    helen

    De Rerum NaturaHellenistic · Latin

    The mythological Giants who warred against the gods and were punished.

    Pay the huge penalties for monstrous crime,
    chapter 5
    (After the manner of the Giants), should all
    chapter 5

    NemeanClassical · Greek

    The mythic race that battles the Olympian gods at Phlegra, ultimately subdued with Heracles's help.

    For he said that when the gods meet the giants in battle on the plain of Phlegra, the shining hair of the giants will be stained with dirt beneath the rushing arrows of that hero.
    chapter 1
    But if a god should also uphold this truth, then under your protection, Heracles, you who subdued the Giants, Sogenes would dwell happily, fostering a spirit of devotion to his father, beside the rich and sacred road of his ancestors, since he has his house in your precincts, flanking him on either hand as he goes, like the yoke-arms of a four-horse chariot.
    chapter 7

    PythianClassical · Greek

    The race of monstrous rebels against the Olympian gods, whose king (Porphyrion) is cited as subdued by Apollo's bow.

    Cilician Typhon with his hundred heads did not escape you, nor indeed did the king of the Giants.
    chapter 8

    SophistClassical · Greek

    The materialist party in the Stranger's image of a battle of gods and giants, who identify being with body and touchable matter, and are gradually made to admit incorporeal existents such as soul and justice.

    Well, since they have at the moment nothing better of their own to offer, they accept this.
    sophist
    for the aboriginal sons of the dragon’s teeth among them would not shrink from any such utterance;
    sophist
    Some of them drag down everything from heaven and the invisible to earth, actually grasping rocks and trees with their hands;
    sophist

    SymposiumClassical · Greek

    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;
    symposium

    The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

    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.
    ii the giants and the gods

    De Carnis ResurrectioneLate Antiquity · Latin

    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.
    de carnis resurrectione