Mythological Monsters

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Mythological monsters[edit source|editbeta]

Greek myth includes many monstrous beings:

Centaur, a race of half-man, half-horse beings Asbolus

Chariclo, wife of the centaur Chiron

Chiron, the eldest and wisest of the Centaurs. The ancient Trainer

of Heroes.

Eurytion

Cerberus, the three-headed, giant hound that guarded the gates of

Hades

Charybdis, a sea monster whose inhalations formed a deadly whirlpool

Chimera, a three-headed monster, with the foreparts of a lion, the

middle-parts of a goat and rising snake for its tail.

Empousa, a vampiric demon with a leg of bronze and a hoofed foot of

a donkey; she seduced men in order to feed on their flesh and blood

Gorgons, cursed sisters with serpents for hair

Medusa, the sister capable of turning men to stone with her gaze,

cursed by Athena for being with Poseidon in her temple.

Stheno, the most murderous of the sisters

Euryalesister most known for her death-bellowing screams

Graeae, three old women with one tooth and one eye among them

Deino

Enyo

Pemphredo

Harpies, winged monsters with the bodies of birds and the heads and

torsos of women

Hippalectryon, a creature with the fore-parts of a rooster and the body

of a horse

Hippocampi, sea creatures with the fore-parts of horses and the tails of

fish

Ichthyocentaurs, a pair of marine centaurs with the upper bodies of

men, the lower fronts of horses, and the tails of fish

Ipotane, a race of half-horse, half-humans

Kobaloi, a species of mischievous creatures, fond of tricking or

frightening humans
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Manticore, a monster with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and

the tail of a scorpion.

Minotaur, a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man;

slain multiple times.

Mormo, a vampiric creature who bit bad children

Lamia, a vampiric demon which preyed on children

Hydra, a 7 headed, land and water-dwelling, serpent-like creature that

guarded an Underworld entrance beneath LakeLerna. It was

destroyed byHeracles, in his secondLabour

Furies, the three goddesses of pain. Worked for Hades in the

Underworld to punish evil souls. Created from the blood of Uranus.

Nessus, a ferryman at the riverStyx

Ophiotaurus, a creature part bull and part serpent

Orthrus, a two-headed, serpent-tailed dog, slain by Heracles

Panes, a tribe of nature-spirits which had the heads and torsos of men,

the legs and tails of goats, goatish faces and goat-horns

Pholus, a wise centaur and friend of Heracles

SatyrsandSatyresses, companions ofPanandDionysuswhich had

human upper bodies, and the horns and hindquarters of a goat

Scylla- dwelt on a cliff on the side of a narrow strait where, on theother side, Charybdis lived. Scylla would reach down with one of her

many heads and pluck sailors off the decks of the ships they were

voyaging in. Scylla was loved by Poseidon, but Circe also loved him.

Filled with jealousy, she turned Scylla into a monster with four eyes

and six long necks, that had grisly heads, three rows of sharp teeth, 12

tentacle like legs, a cats tail, and six dog heads lining her waist.

Poseidon still loved Scylla.

Sileni, a race of elderly Satyrs

Sirens, three beautiful mermaid like women whose irresistible song

lured sailors to their deaths

Taraxippi, ghosts that frightened horses

Telekhines, skilled metal-workers with the heads of dogs and flippers of

seals in place of hands

Mythical animals[edit source|editbeta]

These animals possess some fantastic attribute.

Amphisbaena,a snake with two heads, one at each end of the body
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Arion, the immortal horse ofAdrastus

Balius and Xanthus, the immortal horses ofAchilles

Calydonian Boar, a gigantic boar sent by Artemis to ravage Calydon

and slain in the Calydonian Boar Hunt

Ceryneian Hind, an enormous deer which was sacred to Artemis;

Heracles was sent to retrieve it as one of his labours

Golden Fleece, from a golden-haired winged ram, which was held

inColchis.

Erymanthian Boar, a gigantic boar which Heracles was sent to retrieve

as one of his labours

Karkinos, a giant crab which fought Heracles alongside the Hydra

Laelaps, a dog destined always to catch its prey

Mares of Diomedes, four man-eating horses belonging to the

giantDiomedes

Nemean Lion, a gigantic lion whose skin was impervious to weapons; it

was strangled by Heracles

Pegasus, a divine winged horse

Phoenix, a golden-red bird of which only one could live at a time, but

would burst into flames to form a new phoenix

Sphinxhas the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and theface of a woman

Stymphalian Birds, man-eating birds with beaks of bronze and sharp

metallic feathers they could launch at their victims

Teumessian fox, a gigantic fox destined never to be caught

Giants[edit source|editbeta]

TheGigantes, or giants, were a class of unnaturally large and often monstrous men who were closely

related to the gods. Their parents were Gaia and Tartarus. Each was born to oppose a certain god.

Agrius, a man-eating Thracian giant who was half man and half bear

Alcyoneus, the eldest of the Thracian giants, killed by Heracles, made

to oppose Hades

TheAloadae, twin giants who attempted to storm Olympus

Alops, a Sicilian giant, slain by Dionysus

Anax, a Lydian giant

Antaeus, a Libyan giant who gained strength from constant contact

with the earth and wrestled to death all visitors to his realm until slain

by Heracles
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Argus Panoptes, a hundred-eyed giant tasked with guarding over Io

Chrysaor, a son of Medusa, sometimes said to be a giant

Cyclopes(Younger), three one-eyed giants who forged Zeus'

thunderbolt, Hades'cap of invisibility, and Poseidon's storm-raising

trident

Arges

Brontes

Steropes

Cyclopes(Elder), a tribe of one-eyed cannibalistic dwarfs who

shepherded flocks of sheep on the island of Sicily

Polyphemus, a cyclops who briefly capturedOdysseusand his

men, only to be overcome and blinded by the hero

TheHekatoncheires, the Hundred-Handed Ones, giant gods of violent

storms and hurricanes.

Briareus or Aigaion (), The Vigorous

Cottus (), The Furious

Gigges (), The Big-Limbed

Hyperborean,The giants of the North, made of ice

Enceladus, one of the Thracian giants who made war on the gods; he

was defeated and buried underneathMount Etna

TheGegenees, a tribe of six-armed giants fought by the Argonauts on

Bear Mountain in Mysia

Geryon, a three-bodied, four-winged giant who dwelt on the red island

of Erytheia

TheLaestrygonians, a tribe of man-eating giants encountered by

Odysseus on his travels

Polybotes, a giant who fought Poseidon during theGigantomachy

Porphyrion, a giant who made war on the Olympians and was killed by

Heracles. InHesiod, he was king of the giants

Tityos, a giant slain by Apollo and Artemis when he attempted to

violate their mother Leto.

Typhon, a monstrous immortal storm-giant who was defeated and

imprisoned by Zeus in the pit of Tartarus

Dragons[edit source|editbeta]

Thedragons of Greek mythologywere serpentine monsters. They include the serpent-like Drakons, the

marine-dwelling Cetea and the she-monster Dracaenae.
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TheColchian Dragon, an unsleeping dragon which guarded the Golden

Fleece

Cychreides, a dragon which terrorised Salamis before being slain

byCychreus

TheIsmenian Dragon, a dragon which guarded the sacred spring of

Ares near Thebes; it was slain byCadmus

Ladon, a serpent-like dragon which guarded the apples of

theHesperides

TheLernaean Hydra, a seven-headed dragon which guarded the

springs of Lerna; it was slain by Heracles

Python, a dragon which guarded the oracle of Delphi; it was slain by

Apollo

Drakons[edit source|editbeta]

Drakons ("" in Greek, "dracones" in Latin) were giant serpents, sometimes possessing multiple

heads or deadly venom.

Cetea[edit source|editbeta]

Cetea were sea monsters. They were usually featured in myths of a hero rescuing a sacrificial princess.

EthiopianCetus, a sea monster sent by Poseidon to ravage Ethiopia

and devourAndromeda, which was slain by Perseus

Trojan Cetus, a sea monster which plagued Troy before being slain by

Heracles

Automatons[edit source|editbeta]

Automatons were men, animals and monsters crafted out of metal and made animate in order to perform

various tasks. They were created by the divine smith, Hephaestus. The Athenian inventorDaedalusalso

manufactured automatons.

Caucasian Eagle, a giant eagle set by Zeus to feed on the ever-

regenerating liver ofPrometheus; it was variously described as an

automaton and a son of Echidna

TheHippoi Kabeirikoi, four bronze horse-shaped automatons crafted

by Hephaestus to draw the chariot of theCabeiri

TheKeledones, singing maidens sculpted out of gold by Hephaestus

TheKhalkotauroi, fire-breathing bulls created by Hephaestus as a gift

forAetes
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TheKourai Khryseai, golden maidens sculpted to Hephaestus to attend

him in his household

Talos, a giant man made out of bronze to protect Europa

Legendary tribes[edit source|editbeta]

Arimaspi, a tribe of one-eyed men

Monopodesor Skiapodes, a tribe of one-legged Libyan men who used

their gigantic foot as shade against the midday sun

Panotii, a tribe of northern men with gigantic, body-length ears

Pygmies, a tribe of one and a half foot tall African men who rode goats

into battle against migratingcranes
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