EPHIALTES

1 One of the giants, who in the war against the gods was deprived of his left eye by Apollo, and of the right by Heracles. (Apollodorus i)

2. One of the Aloeidae. When Iphimedeia and her daughter, Pancratis, celebrated the orgies of Dionysus on Mount Drius, they were carried off by Thracian pirates to Naxos or Strongyle; but both were delivered by the Aloadae Otus and Ephialtes.