Briareus was a hundred-handed giant in Greek mythology that guarded Cronos on the island of Ogygia. Felice Vinci notes that Aristotle has the ‘Pillars of Briareus’ as an earlier name for the Pillars of Heracles^(a). Frank Joseph claims that he was also known as Aegeon (Aigaios)^[104] whereas Hesiod and Homer have recorded Briareus as the son of Aigaios^(b).

^(a)Fragment 687 Rose, in Plutarch, Il Volto della Luna (Adelphi, Milan, 1991)

^(b) http://www.theoi.com/Titan/HekatonkheirBriareos.html