concept
Giants
also: Γίγαντες, Γιγάντων
The earth-born race that warred on the Olympian gods. The poem repeatedly likens the mouse-frog war to the Gigantomachy, played out at the scale of an inch — the joke stated outright in the opening lines.
Reading notes
- The Battle of Frogs and Mice §1 Giants
The earth-born race that warred on the Olympian gods. The poem repeatedly likens the mouse-frog war to the Gigantomachy, played out at the scale of an inch — the joke stated outright in the opening lines.
- The Odyssey §7.186 the Giants
A wild earth-born race. Alcinous names them with the Cyclopes as kin close enough to the gods that the immortals still show themselves openly to them — his way of claiming the same nearness for the Phaeacians.