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In Virgil's Aeneid (10.566-67), in which Aeneas is likened to one of them, Briareus (known here as Aegaeon), they fought on the side of the Titans rather than the Olympians; in this Virgil was following the lost Corinthian epic Titanomachy rather than the more familiar account in Hesiod. Other accounts make Briareus or Aegaeon one of the assailants of Olympus, who, after his defeat, was buried under Mount Aetna (Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 141).

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  • In Virgil's Aeneid (10.566-67), in which Aeneas is likened to one of them, Briareus (known here as Aegaeon), they fought on the side of the Titans rather than the Olympians; in this Virgil was following the lost Corinthian epic Titanomachy rather than the more familiar account in Hesiod. Other accounts make Briareus or Aegaeon one of the assailants of Olympus, who, after his defeat, was buried under Mount Aetna (Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 141).
  • The Hekatonkheires (or The Hundred Handed Ones) were three gods of violent storms and hurricanes. They were the sons of Ouranos and Gaia. They were giants and they possessed great strength and could even pick up mountains. They had one hundred hands and fifty heads. At their birth, Uranus locked them away in Tartarus, but they were later released by Zeus in the Titanomachy. The name Hekatonkheires means "the Hundred-Handed Ones". Their names were Briareos, Kottus, and Gyes.
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  • In Virgil's Aeneid (10.566-67), in which Aeneas is likened to one of them, Briareus (known here as Aegaeon), they fought on the side of the Titans rather than the Olympians; in this Virgil was following the lost Corinthian epic Titanomachy rather than the more familiar account in Hesiod. Other accounts make Briareus or Aegaeon one of the assailants of Olympus, who, after his defeat, was buried under Mount Aetna (Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 141).
  • The Hekatonkheires (or The Hundred Handed Ones) were three gods of violent storms and hurricanes. They were the sons of Ouranos and Gaia. They were giants and they possessed great strength and could even pick up mountains. They had one hundred hands and fifty heads. At their birth, Uranus locked them away in Tartarus, but they were later released by Zeus in the Titanomachy. The name Hekatonkheires means "the Hundred-Handed Ones". Their names were Briareos, Kottus, and Gyes.
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