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Porphyrion
Basic account
King of the Gigantes who assailed Hera and fell to Zeus and Heracles.
Account
Porphyrion led the Gigantes in their war against the Olympians - a king among earth-born rebels, vast and bearded in the imagination of vase-painters, always at the center of the chaos. The Gigantomachy was not a skirmish; it was a second founding of divine order, and Porphyrion's role was to personify the assault on heaven's hierarchy itself.
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