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The fourth panel of the so-called “Odyssey Landscapes” wall painting from the Vatican Museums in Rome, 60–40 B.C.E.. In Greek mythology, the Laestrygonians / ˌ l ɛ s t r ɪ ˈ ɡ oʊ n i ə n z / or Laestrygones / l ɛ ˈ s t r ɪ ɡ ə ˌ n iː z / [1] (Greek: Λαιστρυγόνες) were a tribe of man-eating giants.
Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Faisalabad conducts Matric (9th and 10th) class exams and Intermediate (HSSC part I and part II) exams every year.A great number of students participate in these exams every year.
Lamus, a former king of the Laestrygonians, [7] [8] the cannibalistic giants who were later met by the hero Odysseus in one of his journeys. [9] He was the son of Poseidon. [10] [11] [12] Lamus was said to have built Formiae, the ancient seat of his people. [13] Lamus, an ally of Turnus, the man who opposed Aeneas in Italy. He was killed by ...
Elpenor was not especially notable for his intelligence or strength, but he survived the Trojan War, and appears in the Odyssey. He is the youngest man to survive the Laestrygonians. While Odysseus was staying on Aeaea, Circe's island, Elpenor became drunk and climbed onto the roof of Circe's palace to sleep.
Odysseus describes the Laestrygonians (another race encountered by Odysseus in his travels) as more like Giants than men. [14] Pausanias, the 2nd century AD geographer, read these lines of the Odyssey to mean that, for Homer, the Giants were a race of mortal men. [15]
Indeed, the Laestrygonians threw rocks at Odysseus' ships, just like Polyphemos. There seems to be some reduplication -- first, Odysseus faces the Cyclops (of Sicily), and goes to Aeolus' island; next, Odysseus goes to Aeolus' island (again), and then faces the Laestrygonians (of Sicily, again).
The Telegony (Ancient Greek: Τηλεγόνεια or Τηλεγονία, romanized: Tēlegóneia, Tēlegonía) [1] is a lost epic poem of Ancient Greek literature.It is named after Telemachus, the son of Odysseus by Circe, whose name ("born far away") is indicative of his birth on Aeaea, far from Odysseus' home of Ithaca.
The Cicones (/ ˈ s ɪ k ə ˌ n iː z /; Ancient Greek: Κίκονες, romanized: Kíkones) or Ciconians / s ɪ ˈ k oʊ n i ə n z / were a Homeric Thracian [1] tribe, whose stronghold in the time of Odysseus was the town of Ismara (or Ismarus), located at the foot of mount Ismara, [2] on the south [3] coast of Thrace (in modern Greece).