According to Greek mythology Zeus defeated the giant Mimas by throwing blazing thunderbolts at him during the Gigantomachy, the battle fought between the Giants and the Olympian gods for supremacy of the cosmos. Zeus, the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek mythology, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. From A Popular History of Greece, published 1887.

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