Giants of the British Isles

[email protected] Most countries and civilizations have stories about giants in their culture. In Greek and Roman times, Giants were an integral part of history. Ovid documents the story of Giants who once piled mountains up to the stars and were destroyed when Zeus hurled his thunderbolts at them. Homer, in his Odyssey, describes many Giants, often the Cyclops, including the cannibal Polyphemus and the Lestrygones. The Cyclops apparently built the great stone walls of Argos, Tiryns and Mycenae. Several European legends attribute construction of Megalithic remains, including Stonehenge, to Giants so clearly they were very useful. Pliny records that primeval man had greater strength and abilities, and men of the time were but degenerate compared with them.