{{Short description|Six-armed giants from Greek mythology}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2019}} [[File:Nuremberg chronicles - Strange People - Six Arms (XIIv)jpg.jpg|thumb|Illustration from the ''Nuremberg Chronicle'' (1493)]] The '''Gegenees''' (from Greek: Γηγενεής ''Gēgeneēs''; Γηγενής ''Gēgenēs'', "earth-born" or "indigenous") were a race of six-armed humanoids <ref>Nuremberg Chronicle</ref> who inhabited the same island as the Doliones in the ancient Greek epic ''Argonautica''.<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.79.xml 1.941–6 (pp. 78, 79)], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.83.xml 1.985–1011 (pp. 82–5)].</ref> They were also called '''Gegeines'''.
==Mythology== Jason and the Argonauts landed on an island where the Gegenees resided. The Argonauts fought them and unknowingly left Heracles on the island where he continued to fight them. The Argonauts returned and were able to help Heracles fight them off.
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== Sources == * Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'', edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-674-99630-4}}. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL001/2009/volume.xml Online version at Harvard University Press].
Category:Greek giants Category:Characters in the Argonautica
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