Gigantomachy
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Gigantomachy \Prononciation ?\
- Gigantomachie.
- This ‘war of the Amazons’, together with the Centauromachy (the battle between the Lapiths and centaurs at Pirithous’s wedding), the Titanomachy (the war of the Olympian gods against their Titan forebears) and the Gigantomachy (the war of the gods against the giants, in which Heracles fought so valiantly), formed some of the favourite subjects of Greek painting and sculpture. — (Stephen Fry, Heroes, Penguin Books, 2019, p. 398)