people
the Giants
The earth-born Giants who warred on heaven and were beaten at Phlegra; in his madness Hercules imagines them rising again.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §311 the Titans
The Titans and Giants who warred on heaven and were blasted by Jupiter's thunderbolt, piling Pelion on Ossa.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §6.58.15 Giants
The monstrous earth-born race who warred on the gods; like the Centaurs, an example of a non-existent thing the mind can still picture.
- Hercules (Mad) §997 deadly Giants
The earth-born Giants, beaten by the gods at Phlegra; the maddened Hercules hallucinates their return and would join them against heaven.
- Thyestes §789 Giants
The Giants who warred on the gods and were imprisoned beneath the earth by Dis.