Greek giants, Titans and Cyclopes
Greek myth has several kinds of large beings, and they are often blurred. Hesiod's Theogony makes Atlas a Titan; Homer's Odyssey makes Polyphemus a Cyclops; Apollodorus' Bibliotheca gives the Gigantes their war against the Olympians. This page sorts the catalogue's Greek figures by what the sources call them, and notes where the sources themselves disagree.
Titans
Cyclopes
Gigantomachy
- The GigantesMembers
Greek
Earth-born Greek race defeated by the Olympians: man-sized in the earliest art, snake-legged only later.
- EnceladusMembers
Greek
Giant buried beneath Sicily; his thrashing is said to cause earthquakes.
- PorphyrionMembers
Greek
King of the Gigantes who assailed Hera and fell to Zeus and Heracles.
- AlcyoneusMembers
Greek
Immortal on his native soil; slain only when dragged beyond its border.
- PolybotesMembers
Greek
Pursued by Poseidon across the sea; crushed under the island of Nisyros.
Others
- TalosFree
Greek
The bronze guardian of Crete: automaton giant with a single vein of ichor.
- AntaeusMembers
Greek
Libyan giant who drew strength from the earth: until Heracles lifted him.
- BriareusMembers
Greek
Hundred-handed giant who aided Zeus against the Titans.
- GeryonMembers
Greek
Three-bodied giant of the far west whose cattle Heracles stole.
- TityusMembers
Greek
Giant punished in the underworld; vultures feast forever on his liver.
- OrionMembers
Greek
The hunter so great he was set among the stars.