English-Finnish translations for hecatoncheires

Definition of hecatoncheires

• Three monstrous giants of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms, who were offspring of Uranus by Gaia, whom Zeus freed from captivity and who in return aided the Olympians in the Titanomachy

Examples

• The three Hecatoncheires were named Cottus, Briareus (or Aegaeon) and Gyges (or Gyes

Related words

• hypothecate
• Hecate
• hypothecation
• hecatomb
• hecatonicosachoron