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the giants revolt
Title: the giants revolt
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 218 | Pages: 0.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
the giants revolt
The Giants' Revolt
Enraged because Zeus had confined their brothers, the Titans, in Tartarus, certain tall and terrible giants plotted an assault on Heaven. They had been born from Mother Earth at Thracian Phlegra,
twenty-four in number. Without warning, they seized rocks and fire-brands and hurled them upwards from their mountain tops, so that the Olympians were hard
pressed. Hera prophesied that the giants could never be killed by any god, but only by a …showed first 75 words of 218 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 218 total…the stars, Zeus groped about, found the herb, and brought it safely to Heaven. The Olympians could now join battle with the giants. Heracles let loose his first arrow against Aclyoneus, the enemy's leader. He fell, but sprang up again revived, because this was his native soil of Phlegra. 'Quick!' cried Athene. 'Drag him away to another country!' Heracles caught Aclyoneus and dragged him over the Tracian border, where he despatched him with a club.
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