Platanus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Platanus (Ancient Greek: Πλάτανος, romanized: Platanos, lit. 'plane tree') is the daughter of the Thessalian king Aloeus and the sister of the Aloadae giants, who attacked the gods. Platanus was said to be as big as her brothers. Her brief tale survives in the chronicles of a Byzantine scholar of the twelfth century, Nicephorus Basilacius.