Fulgentius begins his account of this figure by stating he "is a form of lust" before concluding with the moral "Men wage a greater war with vices than with human foes.
Fulgentius begins his account of this figure by stating he "is a form of lust" before concluding with the moral "Men wage a greater war with vices than with human foes." Philostratus of Lemnos's book Imagines describes a painting in which this figure is said to have skin "charred" by the sun and that he had a lower leg that was not straight, but "ungainly," to illustrate his strength. Strabo recounted an apocryphal story in which this figure's tomb was shaped like a giant human, and that whenever a clod of dirt was removed from it, rain would pour until the clod was filled. Plutarch places this figure's tomb in Tingis, and states that Sertorius was frightened when he unearthed it. In his best-known appearance, this figure tries tobuild a pyramid of skulls to honor his father Poseidon and loses his strength when he is separated from Mother Earth. For 10 points, name this giant of Libya who challenged passersby to wrestling matches before he was defeated by Heracles.
Fulgentius begins his account of this figure by stating he "is a form of lust" before concluding with the moral "Men wage a greater war with vices than with human foes.
Antaeus