The Names of The Giants
Some of the Giants identified by individual names were:
- Eurymedon: Mentioned by Homer as a king of the Giants.
- Alcyoneus: One of the strongest of the Giants, along with Porphyrion. Slain by his own grandnephew, Heracles.
- Porphyrion: One of the strongest of the Giants, along with Alcyoneus. Referred to by Pindar as king of the Giants. Wounded by his nephew Zeus with lightning bolts and finished off with an arrow by his grandnephew Heracles.
- Agrios: Clubbed to death by his three nieces/grandnieces, the Moirai, with clubs of bronze.
- Clytius: Immolated by his niece Hecate with flaming torches.
- Damysos
- Enceladus: Killed by his grandniece, Athena, and buried underneath Mount Etna, like Typhon, on Sicily.
- Ephialtes of the Aloadae: Shot by grandnephews Apollo and Heracles with arrows, or inadvertently killed by Otus.
- Eurytus: Slain by grandnephew Dionysus with his pine-cone tipped thyrsos.
- Gration: Slain by his grandniece, the goddess Artemis with her arrows.
- Hippolytus: Slain by his grandnephew Hermes with his sword and wearing the cap of invisibility.
- Leon: the lion headed giant slain by Heracles in the giants war
- Mimas: Slain by grandnephew Hephaestus with a volley of molten iron, or slain by Ares and robbed of his armor.
- Otus of the Aloadae: Shot by grandnephews Apollo and Heracles with arrows, or inadvertently killed by Ephialtes.
- Pallas: Killed by grandniece Athena.
- Pelorus: Slain by the Olympian Ares.
- Polybotes: Crushed by nephew Poseidon beneath the island of Nisyros.
- Theodamas
- Thoon: Clubbed to death, like Agrios, by his three nieces/grandnieces, the Moirai, with clubs of bronze.
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