page_title: Polybotes
section_title: Notes
hierarchical_section_title: Polybotes / Notes
caption_attribution_description: English: Poseidon fighting the Giant Polybotes during the Gigatomachy. Side A from an Attic black-figure neck amphora, ca. 540 BC–530 BC. Français&#160;: Poséidon affrontant le Géant Polybotès durant la Gigantomachie. Face A d'une amphore à col attique à figures noires, v. 540-430 av. J.-C.
context_page_description: In Greek mythology, Polybotes was one of the Giants, the offspring of Gaia, and Uranus. He fought Poseidon during the Gigantomachy, the war between the Giants and the gods.
context_section_description: Beazley Archive 204546; Cook, Plate III, A.
  Arafat, pp. 16, 25.
  For the birth of the Gigantes see Hesiod, Theogony 185. Hyginus, Fabulae  Preface gives Tartarus as the father of the Giants.
  Apollodorus, 1.6.2. Compare with Homer, Odyssey 4.499–4.511 where Poseidon breaks off a piece of the island Gyrae with his trident, sending the boasting Greek Hero Ajax the Lesser to the bottom of the ocean, where he drowned.
  Strabo, 10.5.16.
  Alcman fragment 1 Poetarum melicorum Graecorum fragmenta, see Ferrari, pp. 28, 151 ff.; Hanfmann, pp. 476; Vian and Moore 1988, p. 192.
  Pausanias, 1.2.4.
  Cook, pp. 14; Carvounis, p. 250 note 29.
  Getty 81.AE.211 (Moore, pp. 30–31; Beazley Archive 10047) and Louvre E732 (Gantz, p. 451; Cook, p. 14; Beazley Archive 14590, LIMC Gigantes 170 image 4/4 Archived 2018-08-27 at the Wayback Machine). Polybotes was possible also named on a sixth-century BC black-figure cup: Akropolis 1632 (Beazley Archive 15673, LIMC Gigantes 110 Archived 2016-10-08 at the Wayback Machine).
  Gantz, 453; Cook, pp. 14–18; Frazer (Vol II), note to Pausanias 1.2.4 "Poseidon on horseback hurling a spear at the giant Polybotes" pp. 48–49. Examples of Poseidon with Nysyros on his shoulder versus an unnamed Giant include: Munich 1437 (Beazley Archive 745; LIMC Gigantes 126), Munich 1485 (Beazley Archive 302287), Metropolitan Museum 98.8.11 (Beazley Archive 301545; LIMC Gigantes 269a: Image 1/2), Williams 64.9 (Beazley Archive 275166), Vatican 84 (Beazley Archive 202472; Cook Plate II), Berlin F2293 (Beazley Archive 203909; Cook, p. 15 fig. 3). For Poseidon versus Ephialtes see Vienna 688 (Beazley Archive 202916; LIMC Gigantes 361: Image 2/2; Cook, pp. 14–18, p. 17 fig. 5).
  Arafat, p. 15; Beazley Archive 200125; :LIMC Gigantes 299 Archived 2016-10-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  Beazley Archive 220533; Arafat, pp. 24, 25, 186; Cook, p. 56, Plate VI; LIMC Gigantes 318: Image 3/4; Perseus Berlin F 2531 (Vase)
  Beazley Archive 301546; LIMC Gigantes 269c: Image 3/3.
caption: Poseidon versus a Giant (probably Polybotes), black-figure neck amphora c. 550–500 BC (Louvre F226).[13]
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