Adaptations
Briareus is mentioned in the Divine Comedy poem Inferno as one of the Giants in the Ninth Circle of Hell (Inferno XXXI.99).
The giant is also mentioned in Cervantes' Don Quixote, in the famous episode of the windmills.
Briareos is mentioned in Book I of John Milton's Paradise Lost alongside Typhon as an analogue to the fallen Satan.
Briareus is mentioned in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding, in a conversation between Tom Jones and Mr. Partridge (Book 8, Chapter IX).
In Don Juan (Canto VI), Byron makes a slightly crude joke, musing whether "enviable Briareus ... with thy hands and heads ... hads't all things multiplied in proportion" (this thought arising from Byron's assertion of his love of all womankind in the previous canto).
Briareos Hecatonchires is also a character in the Anime and Manga Appleseed, where he plays a human who has been transformed into a Hecatonchire cyborg body, which also allows him to remotely control 100 systems. This is one of the many references to Greek mythology in the series, including Cottus (another cyborg) and Gyges (the brand name of a robot-shaped vehicle).
Briares appears in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians novel The Battle of the Labyrinth. He was imprisoned in a part of the Labyrinth that corresponds to Alcatraz and again guarded by Kampe. His brothers have died when no one remembered them causing him to give up hope and refuse the chance to escape his prison. He eventually overcomes his despair and fights against the Titans again. Briares fought in the First Titan War, and recalls it in The Battle of the Labyrinth.
A summonable entity (or eidolon) in Final Fantasy XIII is called "Hecatoncheir" and is summonable by Oerba Dia Vanille. It is the earth element summon, and the last to be obtained.
It is also a monster in Dungeons & Dragons that is commonly used by deities to kill other gods, keeping in line with the power of the Hekatonkheires and their strength.
In Ace Combat 6, there are three massive airborne weapons systems types named after and based upon the Hekatonkheires. The Aigaion-class airborne aircraft carrier, the Gyges-class electronic combat craft, and the Kottos-class anti-air weapon combat craft.
In Bayonetta, she can summon a demon called "Hecatoncheir" (though only six of the hands ever appear), usually to play volleyball using enemies as the ball, before crushing them between their fists.
In the Ghost in the Shell episode "Decoy", many-handed robots were referenced by Ishikawa using the name "Hecatoncheires". However in the original Japanese it is heputonkeiru, meaning "seven hands".
In the "Earth Chapter" arc (1989) of the anime series Gall Force, the human colonies on Mars dispatch the Hecatoncheir, a kilometer-long plasma cannon, to destroy the entire continent of Australia in a last-ditch effort to defeat a hostile artificial intelligence intent on exterminating humanity.
In Dan Simmons' Olympos, the god Hephaestos tells Achilles that the monster Setebos was called "Briareos" by the Olympian gods and "Aegaeon" by the early humans.
In the video game Lord of Arcana, there is a creature called "Hecatonheir", who looks like a Large and Fat Centaur with Two gigantic arms wielding a Great sword in its right arm and a Shield in its left arm.
In the video game series Megami Tensei, he is a summonable, fusable demon for the player to use in his or her party. The Japanese spelling often confuses others since it is Hekatoncheir, but the demon only has twelve arms and one large "face" with three mouths and six eyes. Prominently listed in the Evil Demon genus (Dark/Law).
Composer Iannis Xenakis has a cello solo-piece entitled Kottos (1977).
In the God of War comic series, Gyges appears as the final enemy who was trying to revive his brothers Briareus and Cottus using the Ambrosia of Asclepius. He is killed by the protagonist Kratos.
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