Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Enceladus (Gigantes).
The gallery
Athena and Enceladus
Unknown (Attic black-figure), c. 520 BC
Attic black-figure amphora from Vulci: Athena closes on the Giant Enceladus in the Gigantomachy — the earthborn who will be crushed beneath Sicily, not the icy moon that later borrowed his name.
Artemis and Enceladus (Temple E metope, Selinus)
Unknown (Temple E of Selinus), c. 450 BC
Classical metope from Temple E at Selinus: Artemis spears the falling Giant — Enceladus in stone combat, the Gigantomachy carved for a Sicilian temple that stands over the myth's volcanic ground.
Fountain of Enceladus
Gaspard Marsy, 1675–1676
Marsy's gilded-lead Giant writhes under rock in the Versailles bosquet — Enceladus buried as at Etna, water standing in for volcanic fire. Photographed by Eugène Atget for the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Trojans Land Near Mount Etna; Beneath Lies the Giant Enceladus
Master of the Aeneid, c. 1530–1535
Limoges enamel plaque (Metropolitan Museum): the Trojans beach under Etna while the Giant Enceladus lies crushed beneath the mountain — Virgil's etiology of Sicilian fire cast in Renaissance enamel.
Surviving stone & clay
Athena and Enceladus
SOURCE ↗Louvre
c. 525 BC, Attic black-figure
Attic black-figure: Athena spears the Giant Enceladus as the Gigantomachy turns — the earthborn who will be crushed under Sicily.
In play
Enceladus (Giant)
The Giant Athena buried under Sicily became an etiological story for Etna's fire — Enceladus still breathing under the volcano in later poets.
Enceladus
Saturn's icy moon took the Giant's name — Enceladus in the Cassini images, a namesake that carries the Gigantomachy into modern astronomy.