Villa del Casale Mythology: Gigantomachy

Fight between giants and gods. Giants were born from Uranus' blood (fallen on the GEA earth), when it was emasculated by the Cronus' son. The scene represents the moment in which they try to pull off from their body the arrows poisoned with the Lerna Hydra's blood thrown by Heracles. The wicked giants had dared to challenge Zeus to overthrow the divine order. Were imagined with snakes in place of the feet and at the center their Eurimedonte head.

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