Greek mythological giants with 50 heads and 100 arms
"Hundred-handers" redirects here. For the far-right group, see Hundred-Handers (group).
The Hundred-Hander Briareus used as an allegory of the multiple threat of labour unrest to Capital in a political cartoon, 1890
In Greek mythology, the Hecatoncheires, Hekatoncheires (Greek: Ἑκατόγχειρες, lit. "Hundred-Handed Ones"), or Hundred-Handers, also called the Centimanes[1] (/ˈsɛntɪmeɪnz/; Latin: Centimani) were three monstrous giants, of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms. They were individually named Cottus (the furious), Briareus (or Aegaeon, the sea goat) and Gyges (or Gyes) (the long limbed). In the standard tradition they were the offspring of Uranus (Sky) and of Gaia (Earth), and helped Zeus and the Olympians to overthrow the Titans in the Titanomachy.
^George Grote, History of Greece, Volume 12, Harper, 1875, p. 519.
In Greek mythology, the Hecatoncheires, Hekatoncheires (Greek: Ἑκατόγχειρες, lit. "Hundred-Handed Ones"), or Hundred-Handers, also called the Centimanes...
when he hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires and one-eyed Cyclopes, in Tartarus, so that they would not see the light...
female monster. She was the guard, in Tartarus, of the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires, whom Uranus had imprisoned there. When it was prophesied to Zeus that...
Tethys, Mnemosyne, Cronus, and sometimes of Dione), the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires, the Giants, the Meliae, the Erinyes, and is the half-sister of Aphrodite...
Cottus may refer to: Cottus, one of the Hecatoncheires of Greek mythology Cottus (fish), a genus of sculpin fish This disambiguation page lists articles...
Cyclopes, Gaia next gave birth to three more monstrous brothers, the Hecatoncheires, or Hundred-Handed Giants. Uranus hated his monstrous children, and...
meaning either Tartarus or Hades), and from which he later brings up the Hecatoncheires. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Erebus is used to refer to Hades, the...
Gyges can refer to: One of the Hecatoncheires from Greek mythology King Gyges of Lydia Ogyges Ring of Gyges This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
to make the city their own. Their dispute was brought to one of the Hecatoncheires, Briareos, an elder god, who was thus tasked to settle the fight between...
children with Gaia: the twelve Titans, the three Cyclopes, and the three Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Handers), but hating them, he hid them away somewhere inside...
only because of the Nereid Thetis, who summons Briareus, one of the Hecatoncheires, to Olympus, that the other Olympians abandon their plans (out of fear...
bull will defeat the gods. It depicts Briareus, one of the 100-handed Hecatoncheires, killing the Ophiotaurus in an attempt to burn its body, only to be...
Gaia (Earth): the twelve Titans, the three Cyclopes, and the three Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Handers), but hating them, he hid them away somewhere inside...
trident, and Hades' "helm of darkness", during the Titanomachy. The Hecatoncheires are giants that have 100 arms and 50 heads who were also the children...
Earth have three sets of children: the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hecatoncheires. Tartarus is described by Hesiod as both a primordial deity and also...
of Chios had Thalassa as the mother of Aegaeon (Briareus, one of the Hecatoncheires). Diodorus Siculus (fl. 1st century BC), in his Bibliotheca historica...
alternatively they are Cottus, Briareon and Gyges (mixing them up with the Hecatoncheires, a set of offspring of Gaia by the sky-god Uranus). The Tritopatores's...
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