Laestrygonians
The following is excerpted from: Sicily between History, Myths and Legends - Vol. 1: From Prehistory to the Phoenicians Author: Ignazio Caloggero - ISBN: 9788894321951)
Not much is said about them except for the fact that they were a rough and anthropophagous people whose seat was, according to the historians Thucydides (lib VI.2) and Fazello [6], near Lentini.
A legend puts them in similarity with the Cyclops, telling that they were a people of anthropophagous giants, their king Antiphates had the fleet of Ulysses destroyed, skewering the captured men with huge skewers. Only the ship of Ulysses was saved from the massacre.
Ulysses and the fight with the Lestrigoni (from: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York)
[6] Thucydides: Lib. V.
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