Mimas (mythology)
Mimas ( Greek Μίμας ) is a giant of Greek mythology . He is one of Gaia's sons .
In the Gigantomachy Mimas was an opponent of Zeus and was killed in battle by Hercules .
Mimas is said to be buried under Mimas Mons , either a mountain on the Ionian coast north of Erythrai (today Boz Dağ with the city of Karaburun in Turkey ), or under a not precisely localized Thracian promontory adjacent to the Rhodope Mountains.
The Saturn moon Mimas was named after him.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scholion B to Homer's Odyssey 3,170
- ↑ Alexandros von Myndos , FGrH 25 F 4. Silius Italicus 3,494. Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Pharsalia 7.450