Editing Porphyrion (section)

==Sources==
According to the mythographer [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], Porphyrion was (along with [[Alcyoneus]]), the greatest of the Giants, and during the Gigantomachy, the battle between the Giants and the [[Twelve Olympians|Olympian gods]], Porphyrion attacked [[Heracles]] and [[Hera]], but Zeus caused Porphyrion to become enamoured of Hera, whom Porphyrion then tried to rape, but Zeus struck Porphyrion with his thunderbolt and Heracles killed him with an arrow.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.6.1 1.6.1&ndash;2]. Compare with [[Aristophanes]], ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0019,006:1249&lang=original 1249&ndash;1252]: "a single Porphyrion gave him [Zeus] enough to do."</ref> According to Pindar, who calls him "king of the Giants", he was slain by an arrow from the bow of [[Apollo]].<ref>[[Pindar]], ''Pythian'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DP.%3Apoem%3D8 8.12&ndash;18].</ref> [[Aristophanes]]' comedy ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'', contains two brief mentions of Porphyrion.<ref>[[Aristophanes]], ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0026%3Acard%3D550 553], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0019,006:1249&lang=original 1249&ndash;1252].</ref> Porphyrion is also mentioned, in the company of other Giants, by the Latin poet [[Horace]].<ref>[[Horace]], ''Odes'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hor.+Od.+3.4 3.4.49&ndash;51]; Lyne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=SEZARFIJqPwC&pg=PA51 p. 51].</ref>

The late fourth-century AD Latin poet [[Claudian]] in his ''Gigantomachia'' has Gaia, imagining the Giants victorious, propose that "Porphyrion, wreathe thou thy head with Delphi's laurel and take Cirrah for thy sanctuary",<ref>[[Claudian]], ''Gigantomachia'' [https://archive.org/stream/claudia02clau#page/282/mode/2up 34&ndash;35 (pp. 282&ndash;283)].</ref> and has Porphyrion attempt "to uproot trembling [[Delos]], wishing to hurl it at the sky".<ref>[[Claudian]], ''Gigantomachia'' [https://archive.org/stream/claudia02clau#page/288/mode/2up 114&ndash;116 (pp. 288&ndash;289)].</ref> The late fourth or early fifth-century AD Greek poet [[Nonnus]], in his ''[[Dionysiaca]]'', has Gaia set the Giants against [[Dionysus]], promising Porphyrion [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]] as his wife should the Giants succeed in subduing the god.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'', [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca03nonnuoft#page/424/mode/2up 48.6&ndash;22 (pp. 424&ndash;427)].</ref>