Echidna - Mythopedia
2023年3月22日 · Echidna was a female monster from the early days of the mythical cosmos. Her serpent form suggests that her myth was shaped by Greek contact with the Near East; she especially recalls Tiamat, a female serpent of Mesopotamian mythology, but also bears some similarities to the Hittite dragon Illuyanka. The Death of Echidna
Hydra - Mythopedia
2023年5月20日 · The Hydra, a child of the Greek monsters Typhoeus and Echidna, was a creature with multiple serpent heads. It lived in the swamps of Lerna in Greece, where it terrorized the region’s inhabitants until it was slain by the mighty Heracles.
Cerberus - Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · Cerberus, the terror-inspiring offspring of the primordial monsters Typhoeus and Echidna, was the guard dog of the Greek Underworld. In most literary and artistic representations, Cerberus had three heads and a mane of snakes.
Chimera - Mythopedia
2023年3月22日 · The origins of the Chimera are obscure. Ancient sources agreed that the hybrid monster was the offspring of Typhoeus and Echidna and lived somewhere in Lycia. According to Homer’s Iliad, the Chimera was raised by a certain Amisodarus to be “a bane to many men.” Beyond this detail, the Chimera only shows up in the mythology of Bellerophon.
Nemean Lion - Mythopedia
2023年5月20日 · The Nemean Lion is remembered almost exclusively as Heracles’ adversary. Hesiod summarizes the myth succinctly: Echidna was subject in love to Orthus and brought forth the deadly Sphinx, which destroyed the Cadmeans, and the Nemean lion, which Hera, the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea, a plague to men.
Argus Panoptes – Mythopedia
2023年3月11日 · Argus was a monster whose numerous eyes and ability to survive without sleep earned him the moniker “Panoptes,” meaning “all-seeing.” Hera appointed him the guardian of her husband’s lover Io, whom she had transformed into a cow. But the god Hermes ultimately killed Argus and freed Io.
Ceto – Mythopedia
2023年9月4日 · Hesiod may have also made Ceto the mother of the Chimera, the Nemean Lion, and the Sphinx (the text is syntactically ambiguous, making different interpretations possible). But in the more common reading, Typhoeus and Echidna were the parents of the Chimera, while Orthus and Echidna were the parents of the Nemean Lion and the Sphinx. ↩
Orthus – Mythopedia
2023年3月24日 · Orthus, child of Echidna and Typhoeus, was a fierce two-headed dog. He guarded the cattle of Geryon, which Heracles was sent to steal as one of his Twelve Labors. Both Orthus and his master were slain while defending the cattle.
Typhoeus - Mythopedia
2023年3月25日 · This remarkable myth was presumably meant to explain the “zoomorphism” (that is, the animal attributes) of the Egyptian gods. According to Apollodorus’ Library and Nonnus’ Dionysiaca—the most complete accounts of this version of the myth—Zeus was actually almost defeated by Typhoeus. In their first battle, Typhoeus managed to ...
Theogony - Mythopedia
2023年3月17日 · Interlaced with this genealogical catalogue (which contains some 300 names) is the Succession Myth—the story of how a succession of divine rulers culminated in the rise of Zeus and the current order of the cosmos. Proem (1–115) The Theogony begins with an introductory hymn or invocation (called a “proem”) addressed to the nine Muses ...