Talk:Giants (Greek mythology)/Archive 1

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Gigantes were born from Gaja, Mother Earth. Earth wanted to revenge Olimpus gods cuz they killed and imprisoned titans. Article's version Gigantes are wrong. I am from lithuanian wikipedia and saw some mistakes in article pls change them. Thank you. --85.206.233.128 4 July 2005 09:38 (UTC)

I don't think so, it agrees with this. But I will take a look at it. -Falcorian 21:53, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Plagiarism

Their is some plagiarism from [1]. 69.145.115.110 (talk) 03:45, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, I'll knock out what I can and rewrite later. --Falcorian ^(talk) 06:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Adaptation from early hebrew stories?

What does scholarship have to say about this being an adaptation of the nephilim stories (Genesis 6, 3 Books of Enoch, etc.)? An obvious correspondence would link Azazel with Prometheus.

We can also consider the rebellion of the Titans/Giants in the context of Baal (and friends') struggles against Yom.

--Philopedia (talk) 10:58, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

• I'm not aware of any scholarly sources linking the Titans or Gigantes to the Nephilim prior to their use in translating the Bible into Greek. One theory that I know does exist is that the Titanomachy is the Greek version of the Indo-European theme of the overthrow of the Elder (nature) Gods by the Younger (culture) Gods, with parallels in the Norse Æsir–Vanir War, or the eternal struggle between the Asuras and Devas in Hinduism, the Ahuras and Daevas in Zoroastrianism, and the Irish Tuatha Dé Danann and Fomorians. Similarly, the Gigantomachy may also be a continuation of an Indo-European theme of giants contesting the Younger Gods, with parallels in the Norse Ragnarök and Irish Cath Dédenach Maige Tuired (where the Fomorians serve as both Elder Gods and giants). Pfhreak (talk) 03:07, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

The heading should read "Giants (Greek mythology)", vel sim.

I realize that the ancient Greek term was gigantes, but that's neither here nor there. As far as Aristotle was concerned, his name was Aristoteles, Plato's was really Platon and so on. I'm transliterating from the Greek, but you see my point. Ifnkovhg (talk) 08:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

All the text books and reference books I have related to the subject refer to them as Giants, so this is probably the right thing to do... Of course "all" is two. ;-) --Falcorian ^(talk) 05:47, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

That's good enough for me! Ifnkovhg (talk) 07:17, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Netherworld -> Tartarus

I removed the link to Netherworld, as links to disambiguation pages should be avoided (WP:INTDABLINK). Since the Tartarus article mentions that the giants were imprisoned there, I changed the link accordingly. However, that article does not have an appropriate citation and I don't know much about Greek mythology. So if the new link is wrong feel free to correct it to a better page. --Robinandroid (talk) 21:20, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Questions and comment

1. Reference 5 is way too long. It might as well be part of the main body of the article.

2. This article mentions Alcyoneus, Damysos, Ephialtes, Leon, Peloreus, Porphyrion, Theodamas and many other Giants. This article on Uranus lists 5 Giants: Alcyoneus, Athos, Clytias, Enceladus and Echion. At the bottom there is a list of 13 Giants. Did Uranus have 5 or more Giants? I count at least 19 Giants.

ICE77 (talk) 04:27, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

How the giants where born

How were the giants born? From what I have read before this article is that they children of Gaia and Tarturous (sorry if I spelled that wrong because I meant the primordial god of the underworld) However in this article it has them children of Gaia and Uranus. Also in this article it has them born when kronos cuts up Uranus after Gaia gives him the sickle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.17.164.31 (talk) 00:56, 24 June 2014 (UTC)