Phlegra
place · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Phlegra's plain · the plain of Phlegra
in the texts
Birds
The mythic plain where, according to tradition, the Olympian gods defeated the Giants (sons of the Earth); Pisthetaerus jokingly relocates the city's supposed wealth there.
No, it's rather the plain of Phlegra, where the gods withered the pride of the sons of the Earth with their shafts.
Heracles
The mythical battlefield where the gods, aided by Heracles, fought and defeated the giants.
My son, my own enduring son, that marched with gods to Phlegra’s plain, there to battle with giants and slay them, warrior that he was.
Ion
Mythic battlefield where the Olympian gods fought the earth-born giants, in the course of which the Gorgon was produced.
the fight at Phlegra waged by giants against the gods.
Nemean
The mythic battlefield where the gods, aided by Heracles, defeat the giants.
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.