Hecatonchire

[Mark Odegard]

If you did not know of Carlos Parada's magisterial site, you
do now.

http://hsa.brown.edu/~maicar/HECATONCHEIRES.html

The "hundred-hands" were the prison guards of Tartarus. They
helped Zeus defeat Chronos and the 'bad' Titans.

Mark Odegard.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET>


> The word 'hecatonchire', parallel to 'titan' and familiar
from my
> high-school education in classical mythology, appears to be
absent from the
> conventional dictionaries. I couldn't find it even in the
OED.
>
> Of course a lot of us regular folks can't afford the online
OED ... I
> presume it's there?