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Today's three!

Ceto: Child of Gaea and Pontos. Goddess of Sea Monsters.

Aigaion: Child of Gaea and Pontos. God of the Storms of the Aegean sea.

Oiolyka: Child of Briareos and Cymopeleia. Goddess of Storm Surges.

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"When Zeus took control in the heavens, he wielded his power excessively, committing many willful acts. Poseidon, Hera and Apollo wished to subjugate him by tying him up. When Thetis heard the plot against Zeus from her father, Nereus (he was a seer), she hurried to him, leading forth as an ally Aigaion to terrify the conspiring gods. He was a sea-god and judged against his father, Poseidon. When Zeus heard Thetis’ message, he hung Hera up in the fetters she intended for him and sentenced Poseidon and Apollo to serve Laomedon." - Schol. (D) Il. 1.399

A lot of interesting details in this version: first, the variant that Aigaion is Poseidon's son — as opposed to his son in law like in the Theogony 817, or his defeated opponent in Schol. Apoll. 1.165 (I adore all of his associations with the sea so much) — probably to explain Homer's comment that he's greater than his father. Second that Thetis learns about the coup from Nereus, and third, and this is what really got my attention, the detail that Zeus binds Hera in the golden chains she'd reserved for him.

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With how medium-sized country in the corner of the map Estovakia has the biggest airship fleet we ever see in the series, I wonder if Ace Combat's Strangereal world had an "Anean Flying Fortress Race" like how in our world there was the South American Dreadnought Race.

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Βριαρεως

Briareos was one of the Hecatoncheires, three primordial hundred-handed, fifty-headed storm giants. He was more specifically a god of sea-storms and in this guise he was often named Aigaion (Of the Aegean). Briareos wed Poseidon's daughter Kymopoleia and dwelt with her in the depths of the sea. His two brothers, on the other hand, were appointed guardians of the gates of the storm-pit Tartaros.

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To Aegaeon

I call to Aegaeon, great god of the sea, of the waters once traveled by heroes brave, of the wicked gales and the foam-flecked surf. O son of wise Gaia, good mother of all, and Pontos who is the broad salt sea, O god of the sea-storm, O mighty Aegaeon, yours is the tempest that tosses the ship, the squall that drives her into the deep; yours are the lives of mariners, to take or to spare as is your will. Aegaeon, ancient one, brother of monsters, child of Titans, I honor you with a full heart, O god of storms.

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FRAGMENT 3 - AEGAEON

Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. i. 1165: Eumelus says that Aegaeon was the son of Earth and Sea and, having his dwelling in the sea, was an ally of the Titans.

EPIC CYCLE, FRAGMENTS

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At one point I was a bit surprised that Thetis was the one who summoned Briareos to Olympos when the gods attempted to bind Zeus, because if the Hekatoncheires guard the Titans in Tartaros, how would she be able to do that, let alone so promptly?

But if Briareos actually lives in the sea, then it would make perfect sense that the sea goddess Thetis could summon him with no great difficulty. In the Theogony Briareos marries a marine deity, daughter of Poseidon, and in some other traditions is himself a marine creature and a son of the Sea. Aigaion, who is given as an alternative name to Briareos in the Iliad, was, according to the lost Titanomachia, a son of Gaia and Pontos and had his dwelling in the sea (though in this source he fights against the Olympians on the side of the Titans). According to Ion of Chios, Aigaion was the son of Thalassa, and Thetis summoned him from the ocean. He lives in the sea in Ovid's Metamorphoses as well, and, apparently, also in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius (though I haven't confirmed this one).

And there is also the fact that the geography of Tartaros in Hesiod's Theogony is juuuust a bit confusing:

"There is a bronze wall beaten round it, and Night In a triple row flows round its neck, while above it grow The roots of earth and the unharvested sea. There the Titans are concealed in the misty gloom By the will of Zeus who gathers the clouds, In a moldering place, the vast earth’s limits. There is no way out for them. Poseidon set doors Of bronze in a wall that surrounds it. There Gyges and Cottos and stouthearted Briareos Have their homes, the trusted guards of the Storm King, Zeus. … There dark Earth and misty Tartaros And the barren Sea and the starry Sky All have their sources and limits in a row, Grim and dank, which even the gods abhor. There are shining gates and a bronze threshold, Deeply rooted and firmly fixed, a natural Outgrowth. Beyond and far from all the gods The Titans dwell, past the gloom of Chaos. But the famous helpers of thunderous Zeus Inhabit houses on Ocean’s deep fundaments, Cottos and Gyges. And Briareos for his bravery Deep-booming Poseidon made his son-in-law, And gave him Cymopoleia in marriage."

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