At the end of the gigantomachy, Gaia gave birth to her last son, who was born by Tartaros, Typhoeus (Typhon). He was so fearsome that seventh-century poet Hesiod recounts in his Theogony ...

So, naturally, he decided to eat each child at birth. He swallowed the first five babies whole, but his wife Rhea switched their youngest child - Zeus - for a rock. Kronos didn’t notice and ...