Almops

Almops (Gr. Ἄλμωψς) was in Greek mythology a giant, and son of the god Poseidon and the half-nymph Helle.[1] He was the brother of Paeon (called "Edonus" in some accounts).[2] With the others of his kind, the Gigantes, he waged war on Zeus and the gods of Olympus.

It is from Almops that the now-obsolete name for the region of Almopia and its inhabitants, the Almopes, in Macedonia, Greece, were believed to have derived their name.[3]

References

  1. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Almops". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 132. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=147. 
  2. ^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology. ABC-CLIO. pp. 230. ISBN 0-87436-581-3. http://www.google.com/books?id=1KIYAAAAIAAJ. 
  3. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἀλμωπία

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).