Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Polybotes (Gigantes).
The gallery
Poseidon Fighting Polybotes
Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy, c. 475–470 BC
Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris): Poseidon spears the Giant Polybotes while carrying the island of Nisyros on his shoulder — the myth that explains the volcanic islet off Cos. The Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy makes Polybotes the sea-god's named antagonist.
Mosaic of Poseidon and the Giant Polybotes
Unknown (Roman mosaic), Roman Imperial
A mosaic in the Palace of the Grand Master, Rhodes, restages Poseidon against Polybotes — the Giant chased through the sea and buried under the broken island. Floor art keeps the Cos–Nisyros etiology vivid in the Dodecanese.
In play
Nisyros
The volcanic island Poseidon tore from Cos to crush Polybotes — the Giant's prison still steaming in the Aegean.
Polybotes
Earthborn Giant whom Poseidon pursued and buried under Nisyros — one of the named antagonists of the Gigantomachy.
Gigantomachy
The battle of gods and Giants in which Polybotes falls to Poseidon — the cosmic war carved on temples and painted on cups.