Mar 25, 2023 · Typhoeus (or Typhon) was an enormous monster, often imagined with multiple fire-breathing dragon heads. According to most traditions, Gaia bore him to be a challenger to …

Mar 24, 2023 · Orthus was one of the terrifying children of the monsters Typhoeus and Echidna. His siblings included Cerberus , the three-headed guard dog of the Underworld, who was …

Mar 22, 2023 · The location of Hesiod’s “Arima” (also known as “the land of the Arimi”) was debated even in antiquity. Some said that it was somewhere in Cilicia, where Echidna’s mate …

Mar 17, 2023 · Typhoeus (820–80) Zeus battles and defeats the monstrous Typhoeus, the last of Gaia’s offspring. The Offspring of the Olympians (881–962) Through their various marriages …

Mar 8, 2023 · Cerberus was the offspring of Typhoeus and Echidna and the guard dog of the Underworld. A servant of Hades (the Greek god of the dead), Cerberus prevented the …

Dec 7, 2022 · Typhoeus. Another myth describes how Selene held her own against the monster Typhoeus when he attacked the gods. According to Nonnus, Typhoeus battled Selene by …

Mar 9, 2023 · Tartarus, a dark primordial landscape below the earth and even Hades, was the home of a handful of sinners and hated enemies of the gods. Zeus, for example, cast his …

May 20, 2023 · The Hydra, also called the Lernean Hydra (because it lived near Lerna in Greece), was part of a brood of ancient mythical monsters. Its parents were the creatures Typhoeus …

Sep 21, 2023 · Likewise, the battle between Zeus and Typhoeus seems to have been adopted from Near Eastern sources. Indeed, there was even one Greek tradition that associated this …

Mar 24, 2023 · The third Homeric Hymn, perhaps to make the creature even more terrible, added that when Hera brought forth the monster Typhoeus, she gave it to the serpent of Delphi (here …