Briareus

Account

Briareus - also called Aegaeon - was one of the Hecatoncheires, the hundred-handed, fifty-headed children of Uranus and Gaia, more ancient than the Olympians and stranger than the Titans. Uranus, fearing their power, hid them in the earth. Zeus freed them to serve as living artillery in the Titanomachy: they hurled mountains in volleys no Titan line could hold.