Editing Typhon (section)

==Confused with the Giants==
Typhon bears a close resemblance to an older generation of descendants of Gaia, the [[Giants (Greek mythology)|Giants]].<ref>Ogden 2013b, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ir5FhAQbcfAC&pg=PA21 p. 21]. [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+185 185], has the Giants being the offspring of Gaia (Earth), born from the blood that fell when [[Uranus (mythology)|Uranus]] (Sky) was castrated by his [[Titan (mythology)|Titan]] son [[Cronus]]. [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]''  [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html Preface] gives [[Tartarus]] as the father of the Giants.</ref> They, like their younger brother Typhon after them, challenged Zeus for supremacy of the cosmos,<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.6.1 1.6.1–2]. Their war with the Olympian gods was known as the [[Gigantomachy]].</ref> were (in later representations) shown as snake-footed,<ref>Gantz, p. 453; Hanfmann, ''[[The Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'' s.v. "Giants"; Frazer, note to 8.29.3 "That the giants have serpents instead of feet" [https://archive.org/stream/pausaniassdescr01pausgoog#page/n336/mode/2up pp. 315–316].</ref> and end up buried under volcanos.<ref>As noted above, the Giant Enceladus was said to lie buried under [[Mount Etna]]. For the Giants Alcyoneus (along with "many giants") under [[Mount Vesuvius]], see [[Philostratus]], ''On Heroes'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=R8nMVkv_lZ4C&pg=PA14 8.15–16 (p. 14)]; [[Claudian]], ''Rape of Proserpine'' [https://archive.org/stream/claudia02clau#page/358/mode/2up 3.183–184 (pp. 358–359)]; for [[Mimas (Giant)|Mimas]] under the volcanic island of Prochyte (modern [[Procida]]), see [[Silius Italicus]], [[Punica (poem)|''Punica'']] [https://archive.org/stream/punicasi02siliuoft#page/156/mode/2up 12.143–151 (pp. 156–159)]; and for Polybotes under the volcanic island of [[Nisyros]], see [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.6.2 1.6.2].</ref>

While distinct in early accounts, in later accounts Typhon was often considered to be one of the Giants.<ref>Rose, ''[[The Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'' s.v. "Typhon, Typhoeus"; Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA80 p. 80].</ref> The ''[[Fabulae]]'' (c. 2nd century AD), a Latin handbook of mythology, includes Typhon in its list of Giants,<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html Preface].</ref> while the Roman poet [[Horace]] (65 – 8 BC), mentions Typhon, along with the Giants [[Mimas (Giant)|Mimas]], [[Porphyrion]], and [[Enceladus (giant)|Enceladus]], as together battling [[Athena]], during the Gigantomachy.<ref>[[Horace]], ''[[Odes (Horace)|Odes]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0025%3Abook%3D3%3Apoem%3D4 3.4.53].</ref> The ''[[Astronomica (Manilius)|Astronomica]]'', attributed to the 1st-century AD Roman poet and astrologer [[Marcus Manilius]],<ref>[[Marcus Manilius|Manilius]], ''[[Astronomica (Manilius)|Astronomica]]'' [http://www.loebclassics.com/view/manilius-astronomica/1977/pb_LCL469.151.xml 2.874–880 (pp. 150–151)].</ref> and the late 4th-century early 5th-century Greek poet [[Nonnus]], also consider Typhon to be one of the Giants.<ref>Ogden 2013b, [https://books.google.com/books?id=bFwWDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 p. 33]. See for example [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/16/mode/2up 1.176 (I pp. 16–17)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/18/mode/2up 1.220 (I pp. 18–19)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/20/mode/2up 1.244 (I pp. 20–21)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/22/mode/2up 1.263 (I pp. 22–23)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/24/mode/2up 1.291 (I pp. 24–25)].</ref>