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| | ALOADAE : Giants of Thessaly, Otus & Ephialtes ; Greek mythology ; pictures : ALOADAE (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | According to him, the Aloeidae are Thessalian heroes who were sent out by their father Aloeus to fetch back their mother Iphimedeia and her daughter Pancratis, who had been carried off by Thracians. |
 | | She bore him two sons, though their life was short - Otos the peer of the gods and far-famed Ephialtes; these were the tallest men, and the handsomest, that ever the fertile earth has fostered, save only incomparable Orion; at nine years of age their breadth was nine cubits, their height nine fathoms. |
 | | "Aloeus dispatched his sons Otos and Ephialtes in search of his wife [Iphimedia] and daughter [Pankratis] [devotees of Dionysos who had been captured by the Thrakian lord Boutes], and they, sailing to Strongyle [the island Naxos], defeated the Thrakians in battle and reduced the city. |
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