[23] With his sister the Titaness Rhea, Cronus fathered several offspring, but he swallowed each of them at birth. Aigaion played a role in the ancient Titanomachia pome of the Epic Cycle. [6], Homer's Iliad gives Briareus a second name, saying that Briareus is the name the gods call him, while Aegaeon (Αἰγαίων) is the name that men call him. 397 ff (trans. Hundred-handed or Hecatoncheires, pp. The root αἰγ- is found in words associated with the sea: αἰγιαλός 'shore', αἰγες and αἰγάδες 'waves'. [83] Striding forth from Olympus, Zeus unleashed the full fury of his thunderbolt, stunning and blinding the Titans,[84] while the Hundred-handers pelted them with enormous boulders: ... among the foremost Cottus and Briareus and Gyges, insatiable of war, roused up bitter battle; and they hurled three hundred boulders from their massive hands one after another and overshadowed the Titans with their missiles. 793 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. "The Korinthians (Corinthians) say that Poseidon had a dispute with Helios (the Sun) about the land, and that Briareos (Briareus) arbitrated between them, assigning to Poseidon the Isthmos (Isthmus) and the parts adjoining, and giving to Helios the height above the city. #wsite-title{color:#FF0000 !important;} in Del. : Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. [79] Zeus restored their strength by feeding them nectar and ambrosia, and then asked the Hundred-Handers to "manifest your great strength and your untouchable hands" and join in the war against the Titans.[80]. [24] Gaia had foretold that, with the help of the Hundred-Handers, the Olympians would be victorious, so Zeus released them from their captivity and the Hundred-Handers fought alongside the Olympians against the Titans and were instrumental in the Titans' defeat. Fairclough) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) [63], According to a Corinthian legend, Briareus was the arbitrator in a dispute between Poseidon and Helios (Sun) over some land, deciding that the Isthmus of Corinth belonged to Poseidon and the acropolis of Corinth (Acrocorinth) to Helios. [94] Only references to it by ancient sources survive, often attributing the poem to Eumelus a semi-legendary poet from Corinth. [25], The lost epic poem the Titanomachy (see below), although probably written after Hesiod's Theogony,[26] perhaps preserved an older tradition in which the Hundred-Handers fought on the side of the Titans, rather than the Olympians. [53] The name Aegaeon has associations with Poseidon. Aegaeon and his brothers Gyges and Cottus are known under the name of the Uranids (Hes.