Galaxy/The codex of Thoas (Gigantes)

Thoas or Thoon (Ancient Greek Θόας / Θόων) was one of the Gigantes who assaulted Olympus. In Apollodorus' Gigantomachy the Moirai (Fates) kill him and Agrius with bronze clubs — a Giant distinct from the Lemnian and Aetolian kings named Thoas.

Adapted from Wikipedia, "Giants (Greek mythology)" and "Thoön (mythology)" · CC BY-SA 4.0

I.Gigantomachy

Apollodorus (Bibliotheca 1.6.2) lists the Giant whom the Fates club to death beside Agrius. Other Olympians destroy other Giants by their characteristic weapons; Heracles finishes the wounded with arrows as the prophecy requires.

The atlas id thoas-giant (kinds: giant) is this earthborn foe of the gods. He is not Thoas king of Lemnos (thoas-lemnos), nor Thoas of Aetolia (thoas-aetolia), nor the Homeric Trojan warriors named Thoön.

II.Homonyms

Keep the Giant apart from mortal Thoas kings and from Thoön son of Phaenops (thoon-phaenopid) and Thoön slain by Agamemnon (thoon-trojan).

AT A GLANCE

Greek nameThoas (Θόας)
Roman nameThoas
Typecreature
Domainsassault on heaven · the Gigantomachy
ParentageGaia · Uranustellings differ →
EtymologyManuscripts and translators vacillate between Thoas (Θόας) and Thoon (Θόων) for the same Giant in Apollodorus 1.6.2.
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