Showing posts with label Giant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giant. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Argus Panoptes.

Argus (Argos) Panoptes (Ἄργος Πανόπτης) (Argus) was a many-eyed giant in Greek mythology. Also, he was known as "All-seeing Argos".

Arestor (Ἀρέστωρ) was the father of Argus.

Some of his eyes were asleep and some were open, so Argus could be a guard.

He was the guardian of Io (Ἰώ). Hera asked Argus about this.

Argus was killed by Hermes. Then Hera placed his eyes on the peacock's tail.




Saturday, September 23, 2023

Geryon.

Geryon (Γηρυών) was a giant in Greek mythology. His parents were Chrysaor (Χρυσάωρ) and Callirrhoe (Καλλιρρόη). Also, Geryon was the grandson of Medusa (Μέδουσα) and the nephew of Pegasus (Πήγασος).

Heracles (Ἡρακλῆς) killed Geryon during his tenth labor.


Sunday, December 11, 2022

Giants.

The Giants or Gigantes (Γίγαντες) (Γίγας) were deities in Ancient Greece. Uranus was their father; Gaia was their mother.

Giants had relations with other characters, Hecatoncheires (Ἑκατόγχειρες,) and Titans.

The Gigantes participated in the Gagantomachy, the battle with the Olympian gods. Hercules and the Cyclops were in this battle, too.

There were many Giants.




Saturday, November 19, 2022

Gaia.

Gaia (Γαῖα) (Γῆ) was known as a goddess of the Earth in Greek mythology. Her parents were Chaos (χάος) and Nyx (Νύξ). 

Uranus was Gaia's husband. They had many different offspring. Among them were: the Titans, the Cyclopes (Κύκλωπες), the Gigantes (Γίγαντες), and etc. 

The goddess of the Earth, Gaia, met with other characters from legends. 



Thursday, June 2, 2016

Literature. Part fifteen.

                      "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde.

Once upon a time the Giant had a garden. Children usually played there after school. When the Giant returned, he forbade the children to enter his garden. He was selfish. So children couldn't play in the garden.

Several months later when Spring should have come, it was still Winter in the Giant's garden. Cold and Freeze were very glad of it. Summer wasn't coming, too. Not far from his garden chidren played during warm seasons. Spring and Summer didn't come only to the Giant.

One day he saw children on the tree, they were with leaves. Just one boy couldn't sit on the tree. The Giant helped him.

So he became a kind person. Children played in his garden again. The Giant missed the boy who helped.

Just many years later he found him in the garden. Little boy called the Giant to his garden-heaven.

Children found dead Giant under the tree.

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