Hekatonkheires
The Hekatonkheires or Hecatonchires (stress on the fourth syllable; singular: "Hekatonkheir" or "Hecatonchir" ; Greek: Ἑκατόγχειρες, Hundred-Handed Ones), also called the Centimanes (Latin:Centimani) or Hundred-handers, were figures in an archaic stage of Greek mythology, three giants of incredible strength and ferocity that surpassed all of the Titans, whom they helped overthrow. Their name derives from the Greek ἑκατόν (hekaton; "hundred") and χείρ (kheir; "hand"), "each of them having a hundred hands and fifty heads" (Bibliotheca). Hesiod's Theogony (624, 639, 714, 734–35) reports that the three Hekatonkheires became the guards of the gates of Tartarus.