Ephialtes

Family: Giants · Role: giant · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.6

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Ephialtes)

Life events

• Artemis tricked Otus and Ephialtes into killing each other with their own darts.(Apollodorus, Library 1.7 · 📍 Naxos)
  • With: Artemis Otus
  • “For she changed herself into a deer and leaped between them, and in their eagerness to hit the quarry they threw their darts at each other.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.6

• enemies with Apollo “As for the other giants, Ephialtes was shot by Apollo with an arrow in his left eye and by Hercules in his right;”
• enemies with Heracles “As for the other giants, Ephialtes was shot by Apollo with an arrow in his left eye and by Hercules in his right;”
• with Apollo (Apollo shot Ephialtes.) “Ephialtes was shot by Apollo with an arrow in his left eye and by Hercules in his right”
• with Heracles (Hercules shot Ephialtes.) “Ephialtes was shot by Apollo with an arrow in his left eye and by Hercules in his right”

Apollodorus, Library 1.7

• parent: Poseidon “Poseidon met her and begat two sons, Otus and Ephialtes”
• parent: Iphimedia “Poseidon met her and begat two sons, Otus and Ephialtes”
• admired: Hera “And Ephialtes wooed Hera”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.