page_title: Giantess
section_title: Polytheism and mythology
hierarchical_section_title: Giantess / Polytheism and mythology
caption_attribution_description: English: Eos (Dawn) pursuing Tithonus, detail from an Attic red-figure oinochoe. Français&#160;: Éos (l'Aurore) poursuivant Tithon, œnochoé attique à figures rouges.
context_page_description: A giantess is a female giant: either a mythical being, such as the Amazons of Greek mythology, resembling a woman of superhuman size and strength or a human woman of exceptional stature, often the result of some medical or genetic abnormality.
caption: The Titanide Eos pursues the object of her affection, the reluctant Tithonos, on an Attic oinochoe of the Achilles Painter, ca. 470 BC–460 BCE (Louvre)
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