Hecatoncheires

English Etymology From en grc - grc ἑκᾰτόν hundred χείρ hand 1, compare the adjective grc ἑκατόγχειρος hundred-handed. The putative grc *Ἑκατόγχειρες is unattested in Hesiod's Theogony, which instead describes the giants with the phrase grc ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες.1914 Hugh G. Evelyn-White Hesiod Theogony Theogonia https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=record&vid=485&level=2&cid=457307 150 grc τῶν ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες ἀπ’ ὤμων ἀίσσοντο, ἄπλαστοι, κεφαλαὶ δὲ ἑκάστῳ πεντήκοντα ἐξ ὤμων ἐπέφυκον ἐπὶ στιβαροῖσι μέλεσσιν· ἰσχὺς δ’ ἄπλητος κρατερὴ μεγάλῳ ἐπὶ εἴδει. From their shoulders sprang an hundred arms, not to be approached, and each had fifty heads upon his shoulders on their strong limbs, and irresistible was the stubborn strength that was in their great forms. Pronunciation en /ˌhɛkətɒŋˈkaɪɹiːz/ Noun p en Greek mythology Three monstrous giants of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms, who were offspring of Uranus by Gaia, whom Zeus freed from captivity and who in return aided the Olympians in the Titanomachy. en Centimanes Hundred-Handers en The three Hecatoncheires were named Cottus, Briareus (or Aegaeon) and Gyges (or Gyes). 1840, George Cornewall Lewis (translator), John William Donaldson (translator, later chapters), Karl Otfried Müller, History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates, Robert Baldwin, page 92, nor is it until the poet has related how Zeus set free these Hecatoncheires, by the advice of the Earth, that we are introduced to the battle with the Titans, which has already been some time going on. en 1973 James Weigel; James L. Roberts Mythology w:CliffsNotes https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VnQ09zcw0YIC&q=%22hecatoncheires%22&dq=%22hecatoncheires%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUub6Cu5_kAhWL4nMBHbRZAXgQ6AEIhgEwEA 50 But then Zeus went down to Tartarus and released the Cyclopes and the hundred-handed monsters. The Cyclopes awarded Zeus their weapons of thunder and lightning, and the Hecatoncheires pelted the Titans with boulders. 1993, Tim Parks (translator), Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, [1988, R. Calasso, Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia], Random House (Vintage), page 202, By this time many beings had spread out across space, both on high and below: the Titans, the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires. Translations mythological giants with 100 arms Esperanto: eo Hekatonĥiroj p French: fr Hécatonchires m-p German: de Hekatoncheiren m Greek: el Εκατόγχειρες m-p Ancient Greek: grc Ἑκατόγχειρες m-p Italian: it Ecatonchiri m Latin: la Centimani m-p Portuguese: pt hecatônquiros m Spanish: es Hecatónquiros m-p References Further reading en Mythological creatures Hundred