Aloadae
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Sep 17, 2026
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
Therefore Pollux was permitted to divide his immortality with his brother Castor, dying and living alternatively.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
There was Iphimedia, who bore two sons to Neptune, that were giants, Otus and Ephialtes.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
earth in her prodigality never nourished bodies to such portentous size and beauty as these two children were of except orion at nine years old they had imaginations of climbing to heaven to see what the gods were doing they thought to make stairs of mountains and were for piling ossa upon olympus and setting pelion upon that and had perhaps performed it if they had lived till they were striplings but they were cut off by death in the infancy of their ambitious project phaedra was there and procris and ariadne mournful of theseus desertion and myrrha and clymene and eriphyle who preferred gold before wedlock faith but now came a mournful ghost That late was Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, the mighty leader of all the host of Greece and their confederate kings that warred against Troy.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
He came with the rest to sip a little of the blood at that uncomfortable banquet.
Jason WeiserHOST
In another instance, Poseidon turned himself into a ram and kidnapped Theophane, taking her to an island where he fathered the ram with the Golden Fleece, the same Golden Fleece that would find its way to Colchis and be the MacGuffin the Argonauts would go after.
Jason WeiserHOST
He fathered the Aloadae, two giants, when the Princess Iphimedeia sat down in the ocean, because that's apparently a thing.
Jason WeiserHOST
The giants would go on to storm Olympus and lose.
Jason WeiserHOST
Poseidon claims parentage of Theseus, but that's dubious given how successful Theseus was.
speaker_10NARRATOR
The latter was immortal so long as he fought on the same part of the earth on which he was born, and he soon distinguished himself by carrying off the cattle of the sun and moon.
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With these and their brethren, Enceladus, Pallas, Clytius, Polybotes, Hippolytus, and others, were joined Otus and Ephialtes, children of Poseidon, who, says Homer, grew nine inches every month, and who, when they were only nine years old, had captured war god Mars himself and held him prisoner more than a year.
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Now the oracle revealed to the gods that the giants could be destroyed only in combat with a mortal.
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Gaia, Earth, had learned this, and sought by means of magic herbs to make her offspring invulnerable also to mortals.
speaker_10NARRATOR
He forbade the dawn, the moon, and the sun to shine, cut off the medicinal herbs with which Earth had plastered her offspring, and sent Athena to summon Heracles to take part in the combat.
speaker_10NARRATOR
This savage group of giants then attacked the Olympians, hurling great masses of rock, tree trunks lashed together, and blazing brands against the sky.
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the distance was too great for them to do much damage so they tried to scale heaven itself when their trees fastened together proved too short otus and ephialtes set about another attempt upsetting mount ossa they began to roll it towards mount olympus intending to pile the lofty peak of pelion on that and thus reach their enemies Then Zeus rose in his majesty.
speaker_10NARRATOR
With a thunderbolt he hurled the mountain back to its former place, the Olympians all dashed down, riding on the winds, and a mighty battle followed which lasted a whole day.
Tony AddisonNARRATOR
Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods.
Tony AddisonNARRATOR
Of them is told the tale of Otus and Ephialtes, who, as Homer says, dared to scale heaven and would have laid hands upon the gods.
Tony AddisonNARRATOR
Doubt reigned in the celestial councils.
Tony AddisonNARRATOR
Should they kill them and annihilate the race with thunderbolts, as they had done the giants, then there would be an end of the sacrifices and worship which men offered to them.