📚 noun • entry_id 61082
Hecatoncheires
/ˌhɛkətɒŋˈkaɪɹiːz/
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Hecatónquiros
Three monstrous giants of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms, who were offspring of Uranus by Gaia, whom Zeus freed from captivity and who in return aided the Olympians in the Titanomachy.
1840, George Cornewall Lewis (translator), John William Donaldson (translator, later chapters), Karl Otfried Müller, History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of I…
The three Hecatoncheires were named Cottus, Briareus (or Aegaeon) and Gyges (or Gyes).
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