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	Aloadae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In Greek mythology, the Aloadae or Aloadai were Otus and Ephialtes or Ephialtis, sons of Iphimedia (wife of Aloeus) and Poseidon.
		They were strong and aggressive giants, fifty-four feet tall at age nine.
		The Aloadae, not wanting her to get away, threw their spears and killed each other.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Aloadae (193 words)

	Naxos (island) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		According to another mythological story, the Aloadae had piled Mt. Ossa and Mt. Pelion on top of each other in front of Mt.
		To solve this problem, Artemis told Otus, one of the two brothers, that if he shall stop the siege of the Olympus she would come and be his lover at Naxos.
		In 502 BCE the inhabitants of Naxos rebelled against their masters in the Persian Empire; this revolt led to the larger Ionian Revolt, and then to the Persian War between Greece and Persia.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Duke_of_Naxos.htm (723 words)

	Aloadae
		The Aloadae were renowned for their strength and daring.
		According to some myths, they were friendly towards humanity and expanded civilization and were thought to be the founders of several cities.
		Article "Aloadae" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 27 December 1998 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/a/aloadae.html (108 words)

	Aloadae - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Aloadae or Aloidae, in Greek mythology, two giants who warred against the Olympian gods.
		Thus the phrase "to pile Pelion on Ossa" means to attempt an enormous but fruitless task.
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	ALOADAE : Giants of Thessaly, Otus & Ephialtes ; Greek mythology ; pictures : ALOADAE
		THE ALOADAI (or Aloadae) were twin giants who attempted to storm the home of the gods by piling three mountains, Olympos, Ossa and Pelion, one on top of the other.
		Ares first tried to stop them but was defeated and imprisoned for thirteen months in a bronze urn, until he was rescued by Hermes.
		ALOEIDAE, ALOI′ADAE, or ALO′ADAE (Alôeidai, Alôïaoai or Alôadai), are patronymic forms from Aloeus, but are used to designate the two sons of his wife Iphimedeia by Poseidon: viz.
	www.theoi.com /Gigante/GigantesAloadai.html (2229 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 619 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Being in love with Poseidon, she often walked to the sea, and collected its waters in her lap, whence she became, by Poseidon, the mother of the Aloadae, Otus and Ephialtes.
		When Iphi- medeia and her daughter, Pancratis, celebrated the orgies of Dionysus on Mount Drius, they were ' carried off by Thracian pirates to Naxos or Stron- gyle; biit both were delivered by the Aloadae.
		The tomb of Iphimedeia and her sons was shown at Anthedon.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1727.html (928 words)

	Ares - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ares was furious and turned Alectryon into a rooster, which now never forgets to announce the arrival of the sun in the morning.
		In one archaic myth, related in the Iliad by the goddess Dione to her daughter Aphrodite, two chthonic giants, the Aloadae, Otus and Ephialtes, threw Ares into chains and put him in a bronze urn, where he remained for thirteen months, a lunar year.
		In the Iliad, Homer represented Ares as having no fixed allegiances nor respect for Themis, the right ordering of things: he promised Athena and Hera that he would fight on the side of the Achaeans, but Aphrodite was able to persuade Ares to side with the Trojans.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Ares (1426 words)

	Trollope's Apollo: A Guide to Classics in the Barsetshire Novels of Anthony Trollope
		She fell in love with Poseidon and gave birth to the twin giants Otus and Ephialtes, (referred to as the Aloadae).
		In the Odyssey (11.305-20) Odysseus encountered Iphimedeia in the underworld and she recounted the tale of how the Aloadae threatened to pile mount Ossa on top of mount Olympus and then pile mount Pelion on top of Ossa in hopes of reaching the gods.
		That the Aloadae would openly pile mountains on top of one another in order to reach the gods shows that despite their strength they lack intelligence.
	www.trollope-apollo.com /Framley/Framley37-39.htm (1503 words)

	ALOADAE : The legendary mortal from Greek Mythology
		ALOADAE : The legendary mortal from Greek Mythology
		ALOADAE: Two sons of POSEIDON and Iphimedeia, EPHIALTES and OTUS (known jointly as the ALOADAE) were big lads.
		Even at the age of nine they were nine fathoms tall and nine cubits wide.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=ALOADAE (226 words)

	Ares (Mars)
		The majority of the myths that feature Ares are tales of war or armed challenges and duels, but the god did not always emerge the victor.
		Diomedes, with the help of Athena, defeated him beneath the walls of Troy, and the gigantic Aloadae twins succeeded in capturing him and holding him prisoner for thirteen months in a bronze vessel, until Hermes came to free him.
		Poseidon even brought a suit against him for willful murder, though he was acquitted.
	library.thinkquest.org /28446/myth/ares.htm (472 words)

	Detail Page
		In defending their kingdom, Zeus and the other gods withstood three separate assaults by the violent offspring of Gaea (Mother Earth).
		The three rebellious parties were the Giants, the multiserpent-headed Typhon, and the twin brothers called the Aloadae, who piled Mt. Ossa atop Olympus and Mt. Pelion atop Ossa in their attempt to storm heaven.
		Originally such mythical battles may have commemorated the first Greeks' conquest of mainland Greece and the subjugation of the prior inhabitants' religion by the invaders' cult of Zeus.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0529 (917 words)

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	Apollo (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Though Odysseus warned his men not to (as Tiresias and kirke had told him), they killed and ate some of the cattle and Helios had Zeus destroy the ship and all the men save Odysseus.
		Apollo killed the Aloadae When they attempted to storm Mt. Olympus.
		Apollo gave the order, through the Oracle at Delphi, for Orestes to kill his mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus.
	apollo.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (2133 words)

	Apollo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Apollo also had a lyre-playing contest with Cinyras, his son, who committed suicide when he lost.
		Apollo killed the Aloadae when they attempted to storm Mt.
		It was also said that Apollo rode on the back of a swan to the land of the Hyperboreans during the winter months, a swan that he also lent to his beloved Hyacinthus to ride.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Apollo (5106 words)

	Artemis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Artemis later changed herself into a deer and ran between them.
		The Aloadae, not wanting her to get away because they were eager huntsmen, threw pieces of their javelins and killed each other.
		After the death of Meleager, Artemis turned his grieving sisters, the Meleagrids into guineafowl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Artemis (2406 words)

	Aloadae (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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