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BRIAREUS, or AEGAEON

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 516 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRIAREUS, or AEGAEON , in Greek mythology, one of the three hundred-armed, fifty-headed Hecatoncheires, brother of Cottus and
Gyges
  (or Gyes). According to
Homer
  (Iliad i. 403) he was called Aegaeon by men, and Briareus by the gods. He was the son of Poseidon (or Uranus) and Gaea. The legends regarding him and his
brothers
 ' are various and somewhat contradictory. According to the most widely spread myth, Briareus and his
brothers
  were called by Zeus to his assistance when the
Titans
  were making war upon
Olympus
 . The gigantic enemies were defeated and consigned to Tartarus, at the
gates
  of which the three brothers were placed (
Hesiod
 , Theog. 624, 639, 714). Other accounts make Briareus one of the assailants of
Olympus
 , who, after his defeat, was buried under
Mount
  Aetna (Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 141).
Homer
  mentions him as assisting Zeus when the other Olympian deities were plotting against the king of gods and men (Iliad i. 398). Another tradition makes him a giant of the sea, ruler of the fabulous Aegaea in Euboea, an enemy of Poseidon and the inventor of warships (Schol. on Apoll. Rhod. 1165). It would be difficult to determine exactly what natural phenomena are symbolized by the Hecatoncheires. They may represent the gigantic forces of nature which appear in earthquakes and other convulsions, or the multitudinous motion of the sea waves (Mayer, Die Giganten and Titanen, 1887).


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