Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Briareus

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Canonical name
Briareus
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None
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Monster
Scope
Individual
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Aliases

2

Aegaeon

Alternative name · Reported

hundred-handed monster

Descriptive reference · Reported

Location presence

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Olympus1 observation
·Reported

Achilles reports that Briareus was called to Olympus and took his seat there beside Jove.

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“by calling to Olympus the hundred-handed monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat all-glorious beside the son of Saturn”

Claims

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·Reported

Achilles reports Briareus as a hundred-handed monster, called Aegaeon by men, stronger than his father, and so glorious and formidable that his seat beside Jove frightened the other gods.

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“the hundred-handed monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat all-glorious beside the son of Saturn, the other gods were afraid, and did not bind him.”

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·Reported
“the hundred-handed monster whom gods call Briareus”

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 35

‘Help your brave son, therefore, if you are able. Go to Olympus, and if you have ever done him service in word or deed, implore the aid of Jove. Ofttimes in my father’s house have I heard you glory in that you alone of the immortals saved the son of Saturn from ruin, when the others, with Juno, Neptune, and Pallas Minerva would have put him in bonds. It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundred-handed monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat all-glorious beside the son of Saturn, the other gods were afraid, and did not bind him. Go, then, to him, remind him of all this, clasp his knees, and bid him give succour to the Trojans. Let the Achaeans be hemmed in at the sterns of their ships, and perish on the sea-shore, that they may reap what joy they may of their king, and that Agamemnon may rue his blindness in offering insult to the foremost of the Achaeans.’