people
Giants
also: Gigantes, the serpent-footed
The Giants (Gigantes), serpent-footed sons of Earth who heaped mountains to storm heaven and were blasted by Jupiter's thunderbolts.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §4.8 the Giants, aspiring
The Giants who tried to storm heaven and were blasted down to the Styx; their defeat, like the gods themselves, lives by poetry.
- Metamorphoses §1.4 the Giants
The serpent-footed sons of Earth who heaped mountains to assail heaven and were destroyed by Jove's bolts.
- Metamorphoses §1.5 serpent-footed
The Giants, whose legs ended in serpents; they once tried to throw their hundred arms over the sky.
- Metamorphoses §10.293 Giants
The Giants, whom Jove crushed with thunderbolts; Orpheus's earlier, weightier theme.