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Titans
and giants imprisoned in
Hell
, in this
engraving
by
Gustave Doré
that accompanied Canto XXXI of an 1890 publication of
Dante Alighieri
's
Inferno
. The titan on the left is
Ephialtes
, a son of
Poseidon
. In Dante's
Divine Comedy
, he is one of four giants placed in the great pit that separates
Dis
from
Cocytus
, the Ninth Circle of Hell.
Restoration:
Adam Cuerden
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