Editing Giants (Greek mythology) (section)

===Ovid===
The Latin poet [[Ovid]] gives a brief account of the Gigantomachy in his poem ''[[Metamorphoses]]''.<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D89 1.151–162].</ref> Ovid, apparently including the [[Aloadae]]'s attack upon Olympus as part of the Gigantomachy, has the Giants attempt to seize "the throne of Heaven" by piling "mountain on mountain to the lofty stars" but Jove (i.e. [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]], the Roman Zeus) overwhelms the Giants with his thunderbolts, overturning "from [[Mount Ossa (Greece)|Ossa]] huge, enormous [[Pelion]]".<ref>Ovid also refers to Giants piling up Pelion on top of Ossa elsewhere, see ''[[Amores (Ovid)|Amores]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Am.+2.1 2.1.11&ndash;18], ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/ovidsfasti00oviduoft#page/22/mode/2up 1.307&ndash;308], [https://archive.org/stream/ovidsfasti00oviduoft#page/152/mode/2up 3.437&ndash;442]; Green, [https://books.google.com/books?id=yPUDE65WEMoC&pg=PA143 p. 143].</ref> Ovid says that (as "fame reports") from the blood of the Giants came a new race of beings in human form.<ref>Compare with [[Lycophron]], ''Alexandra'' [https://archive.org/stream/callimachuslycop00calluoft#page/606/mode/2up 1356&ndash;1358 (pp. 606&ndash;607]), who has the Pelasgian race born from the "blood of the [[Sithonia]]n giants", Sithonia being the middle spur of [[Chalcidice]] just north of the southern spur of [[Pallene, Chalcidice|Pallene]], the traditional home of the Giants.</ref> According to Ovid, Earth (Gaia) did not want the Giants to perish without a trace, so "reeking with the copious blood of her gigantic sons", she gave life to the "steaming gore" of the blood soaked battleground. These new offspring, like their fathers the Giants, also hated the gods and possessed a bloodthirsty desire for "savage slaughter".

Later in the ''Metamorphoses'', Ovid refers to the Gigantomachy as: "The time when serpent footed giants strove / to fix their hundred arms on captive Heaven".<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D163 1.182 ff.].</ref> Here Ovid apparently conflates the Giants with the [[Hundred-Handers]],<ref>Anderson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=t12AuG0q144C&pg=PA170 p. 170, note to line 184 "''centum'' with ''bracchia''"]. Ovid's  ''[[Amores (Ovid)|Amores]]''  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Am.+2.1 2.1.11&ndash;18], see Knox, [https://books.google.com/books?id=MtNSM3gHnvEC&pg=PT239 p. 209], likewise associates the Gigantomachy with the Hundred-Hander "Gyas", while in ''[[Fasti (poem)|Fasti]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/ovidsfasti00oviduoft#page/262/mode/2up 5.35&ndash;37], Ovid has the Giants have a "thousand hands". This same conflation may already occur in [[Euphorion of Chalcis|Euphorion]], fragment 169 (Lightfoot) (Lightfoot, [https://books.google.com/books?id=3ScXvWB0Es0C&pg=PA394 pp. 394&ndash;395]), see Vian and Moore 1988, p. 193.</ref> who, though in Hesiod fought alongside Zeus and the Olympians, in some traditions fought against them.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+617 617&ndash;736], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+815 815&ndash;819]. For the Hundred-Handers as opponents of Zeus, see for example [[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D10%3Acard%3D543 10.565&ndash;568]; O'Hara, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nhAFo12lV7IC&pg=PA99 p. 99].</ref>