Editing Tower of Babel (section)

=== Greco-Roman parallel ===
[[File:Foster Bible Pictures 0005-1.jpg|thumb|Building of Babel]]
In [[Greek mythology]], much of which was adopted by the [[Roman mythology|Romans]], there is a myth referred to as the [[Giants (Greek mythology)#The Gigantomachy|Gigantomachy]], the battle fought between the Giants and the Olympian gods for supremacy of the cosmos. In [[Ovid]]'s telling of the myth, the Giants attempt to reach the gods in heaven by stacking mountains, but are repelled by [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]]'s thunderbolts. A.S. Kline translates Ovid's ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 1.151–155 as:<ref>{{cite web |title=Metamorphoses (Kline) 1, the Ovid Collection, Univ. Of Virginia E-Text Center |url=https://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph.htm#488381096}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=Rendering the heights of heaven no safer than the earth, they say the giants attempted to take the Celestial kingdom, piling mountains up to the distant stars. Then the all-powerful father of the gods hurled his bolt of lightning, fractured Olympus and threw Mount Pelion down from Ossa below.}}