Thoon (giant)
The Moiren kill Agrios and Thoon. Detail of the Pergamon Altar
Thoon ( Greek Θόων ) is a giant of Greek mythology .
In the library of Apollodorus he is a son of Gaia and the blood of Uranus , which falls on Gaia when he is emasculated. Like the giant Agrios, Thoon is slain with bronze clubs in the Gigantomachie by the Moiren . Since the giants can only be finally killed by mortals, Heracles kills him lying on the ground with an arrow.
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Thoon 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, column 823 ( digitized version ).