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(Aloids, Ἀλωάδαι, Ἀλωεῖδαι; Alōádai, Alōeîdai). Otos and Ephialtes, gigantic sons of Iphimedea and Aloeus (Hom. Il. 5,385 ff. with schol.) or Poseidon (Hom. Od. 11,305 f.; Hes. fr. 19; in Eratosth. FGrH 241 F 35 ‘Earth-born’). Only nine years old, they are already nine fathoms wide and nine yards tall and hold Ares prisoner for 13 months in an iron barrel, because he is guilty of the death of  Adonis. Their stepmother Eeriboea, however, tells Hermes of the prison of the exhausted god of war (Hom. Il. 5,385 ff.). The A. want to overturn the mounta…