List of Greek Mythological Creatures - Giants

Giants

The Gigantes, or giants, were a class of unnaturally large and often monstrous men who were closely related to the gods.

• Agrius, a man-eating Thracian giant who was half man and half bear
• Alcyoneus, the eldest of the Thracian giants, killed by Heracles
• The Aloadae, twin giants who attempted to storm Olympus
• Alops, a Sicilian giant, slain by Dionysus
• Anax, a Lydian giant
• Antaeus, a Libyan giant who gained strength from constant contact with the earth and wrestled to death all visitors to his realm until slain by Heracles
• Argus Panoptes, a hundred-eyed giant tasked with guarding over Io
• Chrysaor, a son of Medusa, sometimes said to be a giant
• Cyclopes (Elder), three one-eyed giants who forged Zeus' thunderbolt, Hades' cap of invisibility, and Poseidon's storm-raising trident
  • Arges
  • Brontes
  • Steropes
• Cyclopes (Younger), a tribe of one-eyed cannibalistic giants who shepherded flocks of sheep on the island of Sicily
  • Polyphemus, a cyclops who briefly captured Odysseus and his men, only to be overcome and blinded by the hero
• The Hekatoncheires, the Hundred-Handed Ones, giant gods of violent storms and hurricanes.
  • Briareus or Aigaion (Βριάρεως), The Vigorous
  • Cottus (Κόττος), The Furious
  • Gyges (Γύγης), The Big-Limbed
• Enceladus, one of the Thracian giants who made war on the gods; he was defeated and buried underneath Mount Etna
• The Gegenees, a tribe of six-armed giants fought by the Argonauts on Bear Mountain in Mysia
• Geryon, a three-bodied, four-winged giant who dwelt on the red island of Erytheia
• The Laestrygonians, a tribe of man-eating giants encountered by Odysseus on his travels
• Polybotes, a giant who fought Poseidon during the Gigantomachy
• Porphyrion, a giant who made war on the Olympians and was killed by Heracles. In Hesiod, he was king of the giants
• Tityos, a giant slain by Apollo and Artemis when he attempted to violate their mother Leto.
• Typhon, a monstrous immortal storm-giant who was defeated and imprisoned by Zeus in the pit of Tartarus