Picolous
In Greek mythology, Picolous (, ) is the name of one of the Gigantes, the offspring of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus. Picolous fought against the Olympian gods during the Gigantomachy. He fled the battle, only to be slain shortly thereafter by Helios when the giant attacked his daughter Circe. Mythology. Patriarch Photius, who attributes the tale to Ptolemy Chennus, writes of an unamed giant that attacked Circe and was killed by her father Helios, who was protecting his daughter; from his blood sprang a white herb, named moly after the hard battle (=malos in Ancient  Greek) between the giant and the god. In greater detail, the homeric scholiast Eustathius of Thessalonica, quoting Alexander of Paphos, writes that Picolous fought alongside the other Giants against Zeus, but fled the battle; he went to Aeaea, the home island of the sorceress goddess Circe and attempted to chase her away, but then her father Helios slew him. From the blood of the giant that seeped on the ground a herb, moly, was sprang that had a black root for the black blood of Picolous, and a white flower for the white Sun that killed him, or for that  fact that Circe grew white out of terror. The plant that sprang from Picolous' death, moly, has been identified with the Prometheion, the special plant Medea used for her potion, which has a similar origin story as both were said to have grown from blood, that of Picolous and Prometheus respectively, as well as the Κιρκαῖον, "Circe's plant", another magical herb connected to Circe.