In the ‘Hymn of the Fifty Names of Marduk’, he Continue reading
Category Archives: Gigantomachia/Titanomachia
Enuma Elish: Mother of all, why did you have to mother war?
Discord broke out among the gods although they were brothers, Continue reading
An Overview: The Logic of/at Origin
The gigantomachia is an expression of a certain logic of/at Continue reading
Pelion and Ossa in Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Act 5, Scene 1)
LAERTES: O, Continue reading
Pelion and Ossa in Rabelais
This response, quoth Pantagruel, maketh not very much for your benefit or Continue reading
The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Virgil
Here [Tartaros] have I [the Cumaean Sibyl] seen the twin sons of Continue reading
The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Ovid
Nor were the heights of heaven more secure: Gigantes, it’s said, to win the Continue reading
The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Hyginus
Otos and Ephialtes, sons of Aloeus and Iphimede, are said to have been of Continue reading
The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Apollodorus
Aloeus married Triops’ daughter Iphimedeia, who, however, was in love with Continue reading
The war of the Aloadai and the gods in Homer
Many of us who have our homes on Olympos endure things from men, when ourselves Continue reading
The battle of Zeus and Typhon in Apollodorus
The defeat of the Gigantes by the gods angered Ge all the more, so she had Continue reading
The battle of Zeus and Typhon in Aeschylus
I am distressed by the fate of my brother Atlas, who, towards the west, stands bearing on his Continue reading
The battle of Zeus and Typhon in Hesiod
But when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven, huge Continue reading
The Gigantomachia in Diodorus
Herakles then moved on from the Tiber, and as he passed down the coast of Continue reading
The Gigantomachia in Apollodorus
Now because of her anger over the Titans, Ge gave birth to the Gigantes, Ouranos was the father. These creatures were Continue reading
The Titanomachia in Apollodorus
When Zeus was grown, he engaged Okeanos’ daughter Metis as a colleague. She gave Kronos a Continue reading
The Titanomachia in Aeschylus
Prometheus to the Okeanides:
When first the heavenly powers were moved to Continue reading
An Overview: Gigantomachias in Greek myth
In Greek myth, accounts of a war between the gods Continue reading
Hekate
It is no accident that Hekate (Ekath) played such an Continue reading
Gigantomachia in Plato 2
Yes, for great is the struggle, I said, dear Glaucon, Continue reading
Dualisms, monisms and trinities
The gigantomachia is a battle of three ontological positions: two Continue reading
Inevitable struggle
An intense contest is inevitably implicated in the very idea Continue reading
The 3 powers of the gigantomachia
The gigantomachia involves three powers or shapes of being which Continue reading
The battle of the gods in Greece
Like many Indo-European cultures, Greek myth and cult celebrated a Continue reading
The Titanomachia in Hesiod
But when first their father [=Ouranos, father of Chronos] was Continue reading
Gigantomachia in Plato 1
What we shall see is something like a battle of Continue reading