Alpos

Alpos ( Greek  Ἄλπος ) is a fearsome giant in Greek mythology who lived on the Pelorias Mountains , the northeastern cape of Sicily .

He was a son of Gaia , had hair like the Medusa vipers and was so huge that he could touch the sun and moon.

Alpos tried to overpower Dionysus , who was roaming through his mountainous territory , by throwing boulders and tree trunks at him, but was pierced by the Thyrsus of Dionysus.

Since there are no sources other than the Dionysiacs of Nonnos of Panopolis , it cannot be said whether Nonnos reproduces a local myth here or whether the giant was born from his invention.

swell

• Nonnos Dionysiaka 25.236ff, 45.175ff, 47.626ff

literature

• Otto Crusius : Alpos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 2861 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Alpos in the Theoi project