THE ANEMOI THUELLAI (Hesiod Theogony 869) THE DRAKONES TROIADES (Quintus Smyrnaeus 12.444) GORGO, KERBEROS, KHOLKIAN DRAKON, SKYLLA, KHIMAIRA, SPHINX, HYDRA, HESPERIAN DRAKON (by Ekhidna) (Hyginus Pref & Fabulae 151) KERBEROS, ORTHOS (by Ekhidna) (Quintus Smyrnaeus 6.260) KHOLKIAN DRAKON (by Gaia) (Apollonius Rhodius 2.1210) KHIMAIRA (by Ekhidna) (Homeric Hymn 3.365) ORTHOS, KERBEROS, HYDRA, KHIMAIRA (by Ekhidna) (Hesiod Theogony 306) HERA (Homeric Hymns 3.300, Stesichorus Frag 239) OFFSPRING TARTAROS & TARTARA (Hyginus Faulaeb 152) GAIA (Aeschylus Prometheus 353, Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes 516, Antoninus Liberalis 28, Ovid Metamorphoses 5.324, Virgil Georgics 1.276, Nonnus Dionysiaca 1.145) TARTAROS & GAIA (Hesiod Theogony 820, Apollodorus 1.39, Hyginus Pref) As a volcano-demon Typhoeus hurled red-hot rocks at heaven and fire boiled forth from his mouth. He had a hundred serpent-heads for fingers, a filthy, matted beard, pointed ears, and eyes flashing fire.Īccording to some he had two hundred hands consisting of fifty serpent-headed fingers on each hands and a hundred heads proper-one was human, the other ninety-nine bestial (of bulls, boars, serpents, lions and leopards). He was man-shaped from the waist up with two coiled serpents in place of legs. Typhoeus was a winged giant, said to be so huge that his head brushed the stars. In this guise he was identified with the giant Enkelados (Enceladus). Later poets describe him as a volcano-giant, trapped beneath the weight of Mount Aitna (Etna) in Sicily. He was the source of devastating storms which issued forth from that dark nether-realm. TYPHOEUS (Typhon) was a monstrous storm-giant who laid siege to heaven but was defeated by Zeus and imprisoned in the pit of Tartaros. Hurricane ( typhô) The serpent-footed giant Typhoeus, Chalcidian black-figure hydria C6th B.C., Staatliche Antikensammlungen
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