In Homer, Antiphates is the giant-king the scouts encounter when they walk inland on the Laestrygonian island. His wife, the size of a mountain, calls him from the fields. He grabs one of the scouts and eats him on the spot. The other two run, Antiphates rouses the city, and the giants pour down to the cliffs above the harbor and start hurling boulders at the trapped fleet. Eleven ships destroyed. Five hundred men killed. The retelling stages the disaster the same way but never gives the king a name. The giants are anonymous, faceless, and the chapter is stronger for it: they are not a kingdom with politics, they are a force that appears on the cliff edge and methodically harpoons the men in the water like fishermen working a pool. Naming Antiphates would humanize them. The cut keeps them as sheer scale and indifference.
King Antiphates
Canonical Homer. King of the Laestrygonian giants who destroyed eleven of Odysseus's twelve ships. Unnamed in the retelling.