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The Gigantes
Also known as: Gigantes, the Giants, Gigantes (Γίγαντες)
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Earth-born Greek race defeated by the Olympians: man-sized in the earliest art, snake-legged only later.
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The Greek giants may not have been giants. In the earliest art they are painted as ordinary armed men.
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Sources
- Hesiod, Theogony 185
- Homer, Odyssey vii.59, 206, x.120
- Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.6.1-2
- Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface
- the Gigantomachy frieze of the Pergamon Altar, 2nd century BCE