Aloadae

Aloadae
Aloadae
Twin giants of Thessaly
Member of the Thessalian Royal Family
	Titans and Giants, including Ephialtes on the left, in Gustave Doré's illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy.
Other names	Aloads includes:; Otus (Otos) and Ephialtes
Abode	Thessaly
Genealogy
Parents	Poseidon or Aloeus (father); Iphimedeia (mother);
Siblings	Pancratis (Pancrato), Elate, Platanus

In Greek mythology, the Aloadae (/ˌæloʊˈeɪdiː/) or Aloads (Ancient Greek: Ἀλωάδαι Aloadai) were Otus or Otos (Ὦτος means "insatiate") and Ephialtes (Ἐφιάλτης "nightmare"),^[1] Thessalian sons of Princess Iphimedia, wife of Aloeus, by Poseidon,^[2] whom she induced to make her pregnant by going to the seashore and disporting herself in the surf or scooping seawater into her bosom.^[3] From Aloeus, sometimes their real father, they received their patronymic, the Aloadae. They had a sister Pancratis (Pancrato) who was renowned for her great beauty.^[4]

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2009). Etymological Dictionary of Greek. Brill Academic Publishers. p. 487. ISBN 978-90-04-17418-4.
^ Homer, Odyssey 11.305–8
^ Apollodorus, 1.7.4
^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.51.1–2; Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 19 with the 2nd book of the Naxiaca of Andriscus as the source

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2009). Etymological Dictionary of Greek. Brill Academic Publishers. p. 487. ISBN 978-90-04-17418-4.

[2] Homer, Odyssey 11.305–8

[3] Apollodorus, 1.7.4

[4] Diodorus Siculus, 5.51.1–2; Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 19 with the 2nd book of the Naxiaca of Andriscus as the source

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