Ion
- 205–218
- I am glancing around everywhere. See the battle of the giants, on the stone walls.
- I am looking at it, my friends.
- Do you see the one [210] brandishing her gorgon shield against Enceladus? 565
- I see Pallas, my own goddess.
- Now what? the mighty thunderbolt, blazing at both ends, in the far-shooting hands of Zeus?
- I see it; [215] he is burning the furious Mimas to ashes in the fire.
- And Bacchus, the roarer, is killing another of the sons of Earth with his ivy staff, unfit for war.
Argonautica
- 3.1225–7 (pp. 276–277)
- Then Aeetes arrayed his breast in the stiff corset which Ares gave him when he had slain Phlegraean Mimas with his own hands;
Odes 3.4.49–58
- Yet Jove had fear'd the giant rush,
- Their upraised arms, their port of pride,
- And the twin brethren bent to push
- Huge Pelion up Olympus' side.
- But Typhon, Mimas, what could these,
- Or what Porphyrion's stalwart scorn,
- Rhoetus, or he whose spears were trees,
- Enceladus, from earth uptorn,
- As on they rush'd in mad career
- 'Gainst Pallas' shield?
Hercules 976–981 (pp. 126–127)
- HERCULES: What is this? The pestilential Giants are in arms. Tityos has escaped the underworld, and stands so close to heaven, his chest all torn and empty! Cithaeron lurches, high Pallene shakes, and Tempe’s beauty withers. One Giant has seized the peaks of Pindus, another has seized Oeta, and Mimas rages fearfully.
Punica
- 8.540–541 (I pp. 432–422)
- Prochyte was not absent, nor Inarime, the place appointed for ever burning Typhoeus,b
- b ...Prochyta (now Procida) and Inarime (now Ischia) are islands on the same coast The volcanic eruptions were attributed to the giants imprisoned below the islands.
- 12.143–151 (II pp. 156–159)
- Men say that the Giants whom the might of Hercules overthrew shake the earth that lies piled above them;c the distant fields are scorched by their panting breath, and, whenever they threaten to burst the framework of their burden, the gods tremble. They could see Prochyte, the place appointed for savage Mimas, and Inarime in the distance, which stands above Iapetus, while he spouts forth black smoke and flame from his mutinous jaws, and seeks, if he is ever suffered to get free, to renew his war against Jupiter and the gods.
- c The Giants were punished for their revolt against the gods by being placed under mountains; and volcanic action is caused by their struggles: Mimas lies under Prochyte, and Iapetus Inarime: see note to viii. 540.
1.6.2
- But in the battle Porphyrion attacked Hercules and Hera. Nevertheless Zeus inspired him with lust for Hera, and when he tore her robes and would have forced her, she called for help, and Zeus smote him with a thunderbolt, and Hercules shot him dead with an arrow.1 As for the other giants, Ephialtes was shot by Apollo with an arrow in his left eye and by Hercules in his right; Eurytus was killed by Dionysus with a thyrsus, and Clytius by Hecate with torches, and Mimas by Hephaestus with missiles of red-hot metal.2 Enceladus fled, but Athena threw on him in his flight the island of Sicily3; and she flayed Pallas and used his skin to shield her own body in the fight.4 Polybotes was chased through the sea by Poseidon and came to Cos; and Poseidon, breaking off that piece of the island which is called Nisyrum, threw it on him.5 And Hermes, wearing the helmet of Hades,6 slew Hippolytus in the fight, and Artemis slew Gration. And the Fates, fighting with brazer clubs, killed Agrius and Thoas. The other giants Zeus smote and destroyed with thunderbolts and all of them Hercules shot with arrows as they were dying.
Gigantomachia
- 85–91 (pp. 286–287)
- Mimas ran forward to avenge his brother. He had torn Lemnos and with it Vulcan's fiery house from out the foaming main, and was on the point of hurling it when Mars' javelin prevented him, scattering the brain from his shattered skull. What was giant in him died, but the serpent legs still lived, and, hissing vengeance, sought to attack the victor after Mimas' death.
Rape of Proserpine
- 3.332–356 (pp. 368–371)
- There was a wood, hard by the stream of Acis, which fair Galatea oft chooses in preference to Ocean and cleaves in swimming with her snowy breast – a wood dense with foliage that closed in Etna's summit on all sides with interwoven branches. 'Tis there that Jove is said to have laid down his bloody shield and set his captured spoil after the battle. The grove glories in trophies from the plain of Phlegra and signs of victory clothe its every tree. Here hang the gaping jaws and monstrous skins of the Giants; affixed to trees their faces still threaten horribly, and heaped up on all sides bleach the huge bones of slaughtered serpents. Their stiffening sloughs smoke with the blow of many a thunderbolt, and every tree boasts some illustrious name. This one scarce supports on its down-bended branches the naked swords of hundred-handed Aegaeon; that glories in the murky trophies of Coeus; this bears up the arms of Mimas; spoiled Ophion weighs down those branches. But higher than all the other trees towers a pine, its shady branches spread wide, and bears the reeking arms of Enceladus himself, all powerful king of the Earth-born giants; it would have fallen beneath the heavy burden did not a neighbouring oak-tree support its wearied weight. Therefore the spot winds awe and sanctity; none touches the aged grove, and 'tis accounted a crime to violate the trophies of the gods. No Cyclops dares pasture there his flock nor hew down the trees, Polyphemus himself flies from the hallowed shade.