Klytios
Hecate burns Clytios with the torch of hell, Pergamon Altar
Klytios ( ancient Greek Κλύτιος ) was one of the giants of Greek mythology who attacked the Olympian gods as part of the so-called gigantomachy . According to the library of Apollodorus, it was burned by Hecate or Hephaestus with glowing iron masses. In the depiction of the Pergamon Altar, Hecate burns it with her torch.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Klytios 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1247 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 1,6,2.