Giant

Giants (also known as Gigantes in Roman Mythology) are large humanoid creatures with mostly primitive or slow brains but amazing physical abilities. Giants exist in many other cultures as well, other than just the Greeks.

History
In Greek Mythology, the Giants were born from Gaia when she fertilized the blood of Ouranos. When they were born, their fate was ordain that they cannot be harmed/defeated by God or mortals. Afterwards, Kronos imprisoned the Giants with the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes in Tartarus.

Some time after the Titans were defeated in the Titanomachy, Gaia had the Giants rise up against the Olympian and restore the Titan rule as part of her revenge for the Titans' imprisonment in Tartarus. Led by Porphyrion and Alcyoneus, they tested the strength of the Olympians in what is known as the Gigantomachia or Gigantomachy. The Giants Otus and Ephialtes hoped to reach the top of Mount Olympus by stacking the mountain ranges of Thessaly, Pelion, and Ossa, on top of each other.

The Olympians called upon the aid of Heracles (the most powerful demigod of the time) after the Fates warned them that he was required to defeat the Giants. Heracles slew not only Alcyoneus, but dealt the death blow to the Giants who had been wounded by the Olympians. Hercules and the Olympians managed to defeat the Giants and condemn them to Tartarus with the Titans.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Giants are seen many times in the Percy Jackson series though are not related to Gaia except Antaeus. Most of them are on the side of Kronos.

The Heroes of Olympus
When Gaia starts to awaken in The Lost Hero, she plans to have the Giants overthrow the Olympians. Enceladus and Porphyrion are the first to be awakened.

Types of Giants
There are different types of Giants outside of the ones that were born from Gaia:


 * Laistrygonian giants
 * Hyperborean giants
 * Gegeines
 * Antaeus is a half-giant who once fought Hercules.
 * Geryon is a giant who owns the Triple G Ranch.
 * Procrustes is a giant who owns Crusty's Water Bed Palace and tried to kill Theseus
 * Orion the great hunter was a giant of considerable stature.
 * Talos is a giant molded out of bronze and set to patrol the island of Crete.
 * Argus, the hundred-eyed security guard at Camp Halfblood, was considered a giant in some myths.

Gigantes
The giants that were born from Gaia include:


 * Agrios - A Giant who was clubbed to death by the Fates.
 * Alcyoneus - The leader of the Giants in the first giant war. He was killed by Hercules.
 * Alpus - A Giant who was killed by Dionysus.
 * Anax - A Giant that lived in the island of Lade.
 * Asterius - A Giant that lived in the island of Lade.
 * Azeus - A Giant who fought in the War of the Titans.
 * Clytius - A Giant who was immolated by Hecate.
 * Enceladus - A Giant who was killed by Athena. Later reawakened in "The Lost Hero" by Gaia's growing power, then killed again by Jason Grace and Zeus.
 * Ephialtes - A Giant who assisted Otus into stacking mountain after mountain in order to reach Mount Olympus. He was killed by the arrows launched by Apollo and Hercules.
 * Eurytus/Alpus - A Giant who was killed by Dionysus.
 * Gration - A Giant who was killed by Artemis' arrows.
 * Hippolytus - A Giant who was killed by Hermes.
 * Hyllus - A Giant who was connected with the other giants.
 * Mimas - A Giant who was killed by a volley of molten lava launched by Hephaestus.
 * Mylinus - A Giant who was killed by Zeus.
 * Otus - A Giant who assisted Ephialtes into stacking mountain after mountain in order to reach Mount Olympus.
 * Pallas - A Giant who was killed by Athena. In some stories, he was not a giant at all, rather the titan of war.
 * Polybotes - A Giant who was crushed beneath the island of Nisyros by Poseidon.
 * Porphyrion - The second-in-command of the Giants. He was wounded by Zeus and killed by Hercules. Porphyrion was later reawakened in "The Lost Hero" by Gaia's growing power, but teleported away before Jason and Hera could do any damage.
 * Syceus - A Giant who fled from Zeus and was turned into a tree by his mother, Gaia.
 * Thoon - A Giant who was clubbed to death by the Fates.