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KASSANDRA (Peninsula) HALKIDIKI
A gigantic and wild tribe, hostile to the gods, that was related to the Phaecians (Od. 7.206) and was exterminated by Zeus (Od. 7.59, 10.120).
Gigantes. In Homer the Gigantes are a wild and gigantic race
of aborigines, kinsmen of the gods, as are the Cyclopes and Phaeacians. With their
king Eurymedon, they are destroyed for their wickedness. Hesiod makes them the
sons of Gaea, sprung from the blood of the mutilated Uranus. Neither Hesiod nor
Homer knew anything of their struggle with the gods (Gigantomachia), the story
of which seems to be a reflection of the myth of the Titans and their contest
with the gods, and to be associated with local legends. The two are often confused
by later poets. The place of the contest was Phlegra, or the place of burning;
and Phlegra was always localized in volcanic regions. In the earlier stories it
is on the Macedonian peninsula of Pallene; and in later times on the Phlegraean
plains in Campania between Cumae and Capua, or again at Tartessus in Spain. Led
on by Alcyoneus and Porphyrion, they hurled rocks and burning trunks of trees
against heaven. But the gods called Heracles to their assistance, a prophecy having
warned them that they would be unable to destroy the giants without the aid of
a mortal. Heracles slew not only Alcyoneus, but gave the others, whom the gods
had struck down, their death-blow with his arrows. As Enceladus was flying, Athene
threw the island of Sicily upon him. Polybotes was buried by Poseidon under the
island of Nisyros, a piece of the island of Cos, which Poseidon had broken off
with his trident, with all the giants who had fled there. Besides these, the following
names are given among others: Agrius, Ephialtes, Pallas, Clytius, Eurytus, Hippolytus,
Thoon.
In the oldest works of art the Giants are represented in human
form and equipped with armour and spears; but in course of time their attributes
became terrific--awful faces, long hanging hair and beard, the skins of wild animals
for garments, trunks of trees and clubs for weapons. In the latest representations,
but not before, their bodies end in two scaly snakes instead of feet, as in the
illustration. In the Gigantomachia of Pergamus, the grandest representation of
the subject in antiquity, we find a great variety of forms; some quite human,
others with snakes' feet and powerful wings, others with still bolder combinations
of shape; some are naked, some clothed with skins, some fully armed, and others
slinging stones.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Gigantes. In the story about the Gigantes or giants, we must distinguish the early legends from the later ones. According to Homer, they were a gigantic and savage race of men, governed by Eurymedon, and dwelling in the distant west, in the island of Thripacia; but they were extirpated by Eurymedon on account of their insolence towards the gods (Hom. Od. vii. 59, 206, x. 120; comp. Paus. viii. 29.2). Homer accordingly looked upon the Gigantes, like the Phaeacians, Cyclopes, and Laestrygones, as a race of Autochthones, whom, with the exception of the Phaeacians, the gods destroyed for their overbearing insolence, but neither he nor Hesiod knows any thing about the contest of the gods with the Gigantes. Hesiod (Theog. 185), however, considers them as divine beings, who sprang from the blood that fell from Uranus upon the earth, so that Ge was theirmother. Later poets and mythographers frequently confound them with the Titans (Serv. ad Aen. viii. 698, Georg. i. 166, 278; Hor. Carm. iii. 4. 42), and Hyginus (Praef. Fab. p. l) calls them the sons of Ge (Terra) and Tartarus. Their battle with Zeus and the Olympian gods seems to be only an imitation of the revolt of the Titans against Uranus. Ge, it is said (Apollod. i. 6.1, &c.), indignant at the fate of her former children, the Titans, gave birth to the Gigantes, that is, monstrous and unconquerable giants, with fearful countenances and the tails of dragons (Comp. Ov. Trist. iv. 7, 17). They were born, according to some, in Phlegrae (i. e. burning fields), in Sicily, Campania, or Arcadia, and, according to others, in the Thracian Pallene (Apollod., Paus. ll. cc.; Pind. Nem. i. 67; Strab.; Schol. ad Hom. Il. viii. 479). It is worthy of remark that Homer, as well as later writers, places the Gigantes in volcanic districts, and most authorities in the western parts of Europe. In their native land they made an attack upon heaven, being armed with huge rocks and the trunks of trees (Ov. Met. i. 151, &c.). Porphyrion and Alcyoneus distinguished themselves above their brethren. The latter of them, who had carried off the oxen of Helios from Erytheia, was immortal so long as he fought in his native land; and the gods were informed that they should not be able to kill one giant unless they were assisted by some mortal in their fight against the monsters (Comp. Schol. ad Pind. Nem. i. 100; Eratosth. Calast. 11). Ge, on hearing of this, discovered a herb which would save the giants from being killed by mortal hands; but Zeus forbade IIelios and Eos to shine, took himself the herb, and invited Heracles to give his assistance against the giants. Heracles, indeed, killed Alcyoneus, but as the giant fell on the ground, lie came to life again. On the advice of Athena, Heracles dragged him away from his native land, and thus slew him effectually. Porphyrion attacked Heracles and Hera, but was killed by the combined efforts of Zeus and Heracles, the one using a flash of lightning and the other his arrows (Comp. Pind. Pyth. viii. 19 with the Schol.). The other giants, whose number, according to Hyginus, amounted to twenty-four, were then killed one after another by the gods and Heracles, and some of them were buried by their conquerors under (volcanic) islands (Eurip. Cycl. 7; Diod. iv. 21; Strab.; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 578). The fight of the giants with the gods was represented by Phidias on the inside of the shield of his statue of Athena (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 5. 4). The origin of the story of the Gigantes must probably be sought for in similar physical phenomena in nature, especially volcanic ones, from which arose the stories about the Cyclopes.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Dec 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Ephialtes, one of the giants, who in the war against the gods was deprived of his left eye by Apollo, and of the right by Heracles. (Apollod. i. 6.2)
TORONI (Ancient city) HALKIDIKI
A sea-goddess, daughter of Proteus (Od. 4.366).
Eidothea, a daughter of the aged Proteus, who instructed Menelaus, in the island of Pharos at the mouth of the river Aegyptus, in what manner he might secure her father and compel him to say in what way he should return home. (Hom. Od. iv. 365, &c.)
KASSANDRA (Peninsula) HALKIDIKI
A daughter of Eurymedon, the king of the Giants, and mother of Nausithous by Poseidon (Od. 7.58).
He was the king of the Giants and father of Periboea, who was the mother of Nausithous by Poseidon (Od. 7.58).
AGION OROS (Mountain) HALKIDIKI
It is mentioned by Homer (Il. 14.229).
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