Greek giants

giant huntsman in Greek mythology

thumb|right|280px|Zeus aiming his thunderbolt at a winged and snake-footed Typhon. Chalcidian black-figured [[hydria ( BC), Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 596).]] Typhon (; , ), also known as Typhoeus (; ), Typhaon () or Typhos (), was a monstrous serpentine giant and one of the deadliest creatures in Greek mythology. According to Hesiod, Typhon was the son of Gaia and Tartarus. However, one source has Typhon as the son of Hera alone, while another makes Typhon the offspring of Cronus. Typhon and his mate Echidna were the progenitors of many famous monsters.

thumb|The Hundred-Hander Briareus used as an allegory of the multiple threat of labour unrest to capital in a political cartoon, 1890.

giant with hundred eyes in Greek mythology

Antaeus (; , derived from ), known to the Berbers as Anti, was a figure in Berber and Greek mythology. He was famed for his defeat by Heracles as part of the Labours of Heracles.

thumb|upright|A statuette of Geryon at the [[Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon]] In Greek mythology, Geryon (; , genitive ), also Geryone (, or ), son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe, the grandson of Medusa and the nephew of Pegasus, was a fearsome giant who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides in the far west of the Mediterranean. A more literal-minded later generation of Greeks associated the region with Tartessos in southern Iberia. Geryon was often described as a monster with either three bodies and three heads, or three heads and one body, or three bodies and one head. He is common

thumb|Winged "" armed with a stone. Obverse of silver Ancient drachma|didrachma from [[Phaistos, Crete ( 300/280–270 BC) (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris)]] In Greek mythology, Talos, also spelled Talus (; , Tálōs) or Talon (; , Tálōn), was a man of bronze who protected Crete from pirates and invaders. Despite the popular idea that he was a giant, no ancient source states this explicitly.

thumb|Tityos attempts to rape Leto and is stopped by Apollo and Artemis on an Attic red-figure amphora from Vulci, 510–520 BCE, by the Phintias (painter)|Phintias Painter. [[Louvre, Paris.]]

In Greek mythology, the Aloadae () or Aloads (Ancient Greek: Ἀλωάδαι Aloadai) were Otus or Otos (Ὦτος means "insatiability") and Ephialtes (Ἐφιάλτης, which means "nightmare"), Thessalian sons of Princess Iphimedia, wife of Aloeus, by Poseidon, whom she induced to make her pregnant by going to the seashore and disporting herself in the surf or scooping seawater into her bosom. From Aloeus, sometimes their real father, they received their patronymic, the Aloadae. They had a sister Pancratis (Pancrato) who was renowned for her great beauty.

thumb|320px|The fourth panel of the so-called “Odyssey Landscapes” wall painting from the Vatican Museums in Rome, 60–40 BC. In Greek mythology, the Laestrygonians or Laestrygones () were a tribe of man-eating giants. They were said to have sprung from Laestrygon, son of Poseidon.

thumb|right|Alcyoneus (?), Athena, Gaia, and Nike, detail of the Gigantomachy frieze, [[Pergamon Altar, Pergamon museum, Berlin.]]

In Nonnus's epic poem the Dionysiaca, Damasen (, derived from damazô or damasô "to subdue") is a Lydian giant. He is the son of Gaia (the Earth), and was nursed by Eris, the goddess of discord. The story of Damasen is only recounted by the late antiquity epic poet Nonnus in his poem, and he does not appear in any other text of the ancient Greek and Roman corpus.

thumb|Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) The Gegenees (from Greek: Γηγενεής Gēgeneēs; Γηγενής Gēgenēs, "earth-born" or "indigenous") were a race of six-armed humanoids who inhabited the same island as the Doliones in the ancient Greek epic Argonautica. They were also called Gegeines.

In Greek mythology, Alpos (Ancient Greek: Ἄλπον) was Sicilian giant son of Gaea (Earth).

Jovian deity