 There are three brief references to the "Gigantes" in Homer's "Odyssey", though it's not entirely clear that Homer and Hesiod understood the term to mean the same thing.Homer has Giants among the ancestors of the Phaiakians, a race of men encountered by Odysseus, their ruler Alcinous being the son of Nausithous, who was the son of Poseidon and Periboea, the daughter of the Giant king Eurymedon.Elsewhere in the "Odyssey", Alcinous says that the Phaiakians, like the Cyclopes and the Giants, are "near kin" to the gods.