Briareus

One of the Hecatonchires. He was known among the gods as Briareus and among humans as Aegaeon. The Scholiast on Theocritus1 calls Briareus one of the Cyclopes.

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References

Notes

  1. Idylls i, 65.

Sources

  • Homer. Iliad i, 403 ff.
  • Virgil. Aeneid vi, 39.