person
Tityos
A giant of the underworld whose liver is eternal food for a vulture; in Hercules's madness he seems to break loose toward heaven.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §1 the greedy bird crops the ever-renewing liver
Tityos, stretched in the underworld while a bird eternally devours his self-renewing liver.
- Hercules (Mad) §771 Tityos
The giant whose liver feeds a vulture forever.
- Hercules on Oeta §957 let the greedy vulture
Tityos, the giant whose liver a vulture forever devours in the underworld.
- Octavia §615 Tityos
A giant whose liver is torn by a bird and renewed each day as punishment in the underworld.
- Phaedra §1230 Tityos
The giant stretched in the underworld while a vulture eternally tears at his ever-renewed liver.
- Thyestes §1 Tityos
A giant punished in the underworld, his liver torn by birds and renewed each night.