People · Character in Homer’s Odyssey
The Laestrigons
Giant cannibals of the harbour
Giants without a greeting; spear swimming men like fish.
Giants who drop boulders on the moored fleet and spear the swimming crews like fish. Eleven of twelve ships die in their harbour; only Odysseus' own, tied up outside the rocks, cuts its cable in time.
Bonds
- The Laestrigons enemies of Odysseus — smash eleven of twelve ships
- The Laestrigons dwell in Laestrigonia — the cliff-ringed harbour they hold
Appears in
- Book X Aeolus, the Laestrigonians, and Circè
Scenes
- Massacre of the Fleet — Book X. Laestrigonians devour scout, spear crews