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Creatures And Monsters Of Greek Mythology

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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CAUCASIAN EAGLE

  • Giant eagle set by Zeus to feed on Prometheus' ever-regenerating liver

CERBERUS

  • Three-headed giant hell hound that garded the gates of the underworld

CHARYBDIS

  • A sea monsters whose inhalations formed a deadly whirlpool or a huge water mouth

MEDUSA

  • Whose gaze could turn anyone to stone

GORGON

  • Monstrous women depicted as having snakes on their head instead of hair, tusks and whiskers.

GRAEAE

  • Three old women with one tooth and one eye among them. Deino Persis or Perso Pemphredo

CHIMERA

  • A three-headed monster with one head of lion, one of a snake, and another of a goat, lion claws in front and goat legs behind, and a long snake tail.

ICHYTOCENTAURS

  • A pair of marine centaurs with the upper bodies of men, the lower fronts of horses, and the tails of fish

SCYLLA

  • lover of Poseidon, transformed by Circe into a many-headed, tentacled monster who fed on passing sailors in the straits between herself and Charybdis.

SIRENS

  • Three bird like women who's irresistible song lured sailors to their deaths
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