Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, describes mankind's moral decline through the ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron, and presents the Gigantomachy as a part of that same descent from natural order into chaos.Wheeler, pp. 23–26; Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.151–162. Lucan, in his Pharsalia, which contains many Gigantomachy references,Hardie 2014, p. 101. makes the Gorgon's gaze turn the Giants into mountains.Dinter, p. 296; Lucan, Pharsalia 9.654–658. Valerius Flaccus, in his Argonautica, makes frequent use of Gigantomachy imagery, with the Argo (the world's first ship) constituting a Gigantomachy-like offense against natural law, and example of hubristic excess.Zissos, pp. 79 ff.; For more on the use of Gigantomachy imagery in the Argonautica see Stover, pp. 5–6, 71–73, 79–150.
Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, describes mankind's moral decline through the ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron, and presents the Gigantomachy as a part of that same descent from natural order into chaos.Wheeler, pp. 23–26; Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.151–162. Lucan, in his Pharsalia, which contains many Gigantomachy references,Hardie 2014, p. 101. makes the Gorgon's gaze turn the Giants into mountains.Dinter, p. 296; Lucan, Pharsalia 9.654–658. Valerius Flaccus, in his Argonautica, makes frequent ?use of Gigantomachy imagery, with the Argo (the world's first ship) constituting a Gigantomachy-like offense against natural law, and example of hubristic excess.Zissos, pp. 79 ff.; For more on the use of Gigantomachy imagery in the Argonautica see Stover, pp. 5–6, 71–73, 79–150.