FLavius Valerius Constantinus 1 Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share The depiction of Typhon looks pretty cool. Quote Link to comment
Pertinax 3 Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share The depiction of Typhon looks pretty cool. were his offspring not imprisoned below Vesuvius? Quote Link to comment
Pantagathus 0 Posted December 27, 2005 Report Share The depiction of Typhon looks pretty cool. were his offspring not imprisoned below Vesuvius? In a lot of poetic accounts Typhon himself was trapped under Mt. Etna. As for the offspring, Herakles killed a bunch of them as did Bellerophontes and Theseus. "Men say that Typhaon the terrible, outrageous and lawless, was joined in love to her [Ekhidna], the maid with glancing eyes. So she conceived and brought forth fierce offspring; first she bare Orthos the hound of Geryones, and then again she bare a second, a monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, Kerberos who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound of Haides, fifty-headed, relentless and strong. And again she bore a third, the evil-minded Hydra of Lerna, whom the goddess, white-armed Hera nourished, being angry beyond measure with the mighty Herakles ... She was the mother of Khimaira who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire. Her did Pegasos and noble Bellerophontes slay." - Hesiod, Theogony 306 Quote Link to comment
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