Editing Giants (Greek mythology) (section)

==Confusion with Titans and others==
Though distinct in early traditions,<ref>Gantz, p. 450.</ref> Hellenistic and later writers often confused or conflated the Giants and their Gigantomachy with an earlier set of offspring of Gaia and Uranus, the [[Titan (mythology)|Titans]] and their war with the Olympian gods, the [[Titanomachy]].<ref>Smith, William, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DG%3Aentry+group%3D7%3Aentry%3Dgigantes-bio-1 "Gigantes"]; Gantz, p. 447; Hansen p. 178, Grimal, p. 171; Tripp, p. 250; Morford, pp. 82&ndash;83. A probable early confusion (or at least a possible cause of later confusion) can be seen in [[Euripides]]' ''[[Iphigenia in Tauris]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0112%3Acard%3D203 221&ndash;224] and ''[[Hecuba (play)|Hecuba]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=9E598FCE225CCCB46AC844AFDB838A04?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0098%3Acard%3D466 466&ndash;474], see Torrance, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1x3HlgTPlrkC&pg=PA155 p. 155 n. 74]. Later examples include [[Callimachus]], ''Hymn 4 (to Delos)'' [https://archive.org/stream/callimachuslycop00calluoft#page/98/mode/2up 173 ff. (pp. 98&ndash;99)] (see Vian and Moore 1988 p. 193; Mineur, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mZU3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA170 p. 170]).</ref> This confusion extended to other opponents of the Olympians, including the huge monster [[Typhon]],<ref>Rose, ''[[The Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'' s.v. "Typhon, Typhoeus"; Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA80 p. 80].</ref> the offspring of [[Gaia]] and [[Tartarus]], whom [[Zeus]] finally defeated with his thunderbolt, and the [[Aloadae]], the large, strong and aggressive brothers Otus and Ephialtes, who piled [[Pelion]] on top of [[Mount Ossa (Greece)|Ossa]] in order to scale the heavens and attack the Olympians (though in the case of Ephialtes there was probably a Giant with the same name).<ref>Gantz, pp. 450&ndash;451.</ref> For example, [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] includes the names of three Titans, [[Coeus]], [[Iapetus]], and [[Astraeus]], along with Typhon and the Aloadae, in his list of Giants,<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]''  [https://topostext.org/work/206#0.2 Preface]. For other examples of Typhon as a Giant, see [[Horace]], ''[[Odes (Horace)|Odes]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0025%3Abook%3D3%3Apoem%3D4 3.4.53], (which has Typhon battling Athena, alongside the Giants Mimas, Porphyrion, and Enceladus); [[Marcus Manilius|Manilius]], ''[[Astronomica (Manilius)|Astronomica]]'' [http://www.loebclassics.com/view/manilius-astronomica/1977/pb_LCL469.151.xml 2.874&ndash;880 (pp. 150&ndash;151)]; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/16/mode/2up 1.176 (I pp. 16&ndash;17)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/18/mode/2up 1.220 (I pp. 18&ndash;19)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/20/mode/2up 1.244 (I pp. 20&ndash;21)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/22/mode/2up 1.263 (I pp. 22&ndash;23)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/24/mode/2up 1.291 (I pp. 24&ndash;25)].</ref> and [[Ovid]] seems to conflate the Gigantomachy with the later siege of [[Mount Olympus|Olympus]] by the Aloadae.<ref>Hansen, p. 178; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D89 1.151–162]. See also [[Horace]], ''[[Odes (Horace)|Odes]]''  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0025%3Abook%3D3%3Apoem%3D4 3.4.42 ff.], with Lyne [https://books.google.com/books?id=SEZARFIJqPwC&pg=PA51 p. 51]. [[Plato]] had already associated the Aloadae with the Giants, ''[[Symposium (Plato)|Symposium]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0174%3Atext%3DSym.%3Asection%3D190b 190b&ndash;c].</ref>

Ovid also seems to confuse the [[Hundred-Handers]] with the Giants, whom he gives a "hundred arms".<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D163 1.182&ndash;184]: "The time when serpent footed giants strove / to fix their hundred arms on captive Heaven" (see Anderson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=t12AuG0q144C&pg=PA170 p. 170, note to line 184 "''centum'' with ''bracchia''"]), ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/ovidsfasti00oviduoft#page/232/mode/2up 4.593], with Fazer's note.</ref> So perhaps do [[Callimachus]] and [[Philostratus]], since they both make Aegaeon the cause of earthquakes, as was often said about the Giants (see below).<ref>[[Callimachus]], ''Hymn 4 (to Delos)'' [https://archive.org/stream/callimachuslycop00calluoft#page/96/mode/2up 141&ndash;146]; [[Philostratus]], ''[[Life of Apollonius of Tyana]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/lifeofapollonius01phil#page/356/mode/2up 4.6].</ref>