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... > Classical Mythology and Ancient History > myths about creation: cosmogony, theogony, and the origin of man > the battles (of Titans, Giants, Typhon, Aloeids) with the gods > the Giants, Gigantes (with serpents for feet), and their battle against the gods > battle of the Giants against the gods: gigantomachy > the Giants attack the heavens with boulders and tree-trunks

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91C211the Giants attack the heavens with boulders and tree-trunks  

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Subject

  • ancient history
  • assembly
  • battle
  • classical antiquity
  • cosmogony
  • creation
  • Giants
  • gigantomachy
  • gods
  • heaven
  • history
  • mythology
  • root
  • serpent
  • stone
  • theogony
  • tree-trunk
  • uprooting a tree

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  • 91C211

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http://iconclass.org/91C211

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