The Latin poet Ovid gives a brief account of the Gigantomachy in his poem Metamorphoses. Ovid, apparently including the Aloadae's attack upon Olympus as part of the Gigantomachy, has the Giants attempt to seize the throne of Heaven by piling mountain on mountain to the lofty stars but Jove (i.e. Jupiter, the Roman Zeus) overwhelms the Giants with his thunderbolts, overturning from Ossa huge, enormous Pelion. Ovid tells that (as fame reports) from the blood of the Giants came a new race of beings in human form. According to Ovid, Earth [Gaia] did not want the Giants to perish without a trace, so reeking with the copious blood of her gigantic sons, she gave life to the steaming gore of the blood soaked battleground. These new offspring, like their fathers the Giants, also hated the gods and possessed a bloodthirsty desire for savage slaughter.