Laestrygonians
group · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
ogres · the Laestrygonian city · the Laestrygonians · the people
in the texts
Odyssey
A race of giant cannibals who destroy all but one of Odysseus's ships.
But Antiphates raised a hue and cry after them, and thousands of sturdy Laestrygonians sprang up from every quarter - ogres, not men.
Six days, night and day did we toil, and on the seventh day we reached the rocky stronghold of Lamos - Telepylos, the city of the Laestrygonians, where the shepherd who is driving in his sheep and goats [to be milked] salutes him who is driving out his flock [to feed] and this last answers the salute.
So I sent two of my company with an attendant to find out what sort of people the inhabitants were.
Letters
Homeric race of giants invoked as a metaphor for Maximus's enemies.
And he has suffered these things, having perhaps provoked the Laestrygonians against himself, and having fallen in with a Scylla in woman's form possessing a dog's inhumanity and savagery.