{"id":2916,"date":"2010-06-06T07:42:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T07:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/briareus\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:43:36","slug":"briareus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/briareus\/","title":{"rendered":"Briareus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Briareus<\/strong> was described in Greek mythology as a fifty-headed and hundred-handed giant, who guarded Cronos<\/a> on the island of Ogygia<\/a>. The mythologist, Michael MacRae<\/a>, interprets this as a reference to Briareus as the captain of a ship with fifty oarsmen[<\/sup>985<\/sup><\/a>.180]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Felice Vinci<\/a> notes that Aristotle<\/a> had the \u2018Pillars of Briareus\u2019 as an earlier name for the Pillars of Heracles(a<\/sup>)<\/sup>.\u00a0Frank Joseph<\/a> claims that he was also known as Aegeon (Aigaios)[<\/sup>104<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> whereas Hesiod and Homer have recorded Briareus as the son of Aigaios(<\/sup>b<\/sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> has subsequently advised that Vinci\u2019s reference is incorrect and that it was\u00a0Aelian<\/a> rather than Plutarch<\/a>(c<\/sup>) <\/sup><\/span>\u00a0who quoted Aristotle.<\/p>\n

(<\/sup>a<\/sup>) <\/sup>Fragment 687 Rose, in Plutarch, I<\/em>l<\/em> V<\/em>olto<\/em>della<\/em> L<\/em>una<\/em> (Adelphi, Milan, 1991) (see ‘c’ below)<\/p>\n

(<\/sup>b<\/sup>)<\/sup><\/span> http:\/\/www.theoi.com\/Titan\/HekatonkheirBriareos.html<\/a><\/p>\n

><\/span><\/strong>(c<\/sup>)<\/sup><\/span> Archive 3138 | (atlantipedia.ie)<\/a> (see footnote 302 where fragment 678 not 687 is cited)<<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Briareus was described in Greek mythology as a fifty-headed and hundred-handed giant, who guarded Cronos on the island of Ogygia. The mythologist, Michael MacRae, interprets this as a reference to Briareus as the captain of a ship with fifty oarsmen[985.180]. Felice Vinci notes that Aristotle had the \u2018Pillars of Briareus\u2019 as an earlier name for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[971,133,1738,2437,533,124,122,123,3134,65,48,378],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aelian","tag-aristotle","tag-briareus","tag-cronos","tag-felice-vinci","tag-frank-joseph","tag-hesiod","tag-homer","tag-michael-macrae","tag-ogygia","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-plutarch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66709,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions\/66709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}