1 / 12

Famous Greek Monsters

Famous Greek Monsters. By John Graham. Minotaur. A half man half bull monster. Minos owned the minotaur. So he sealed it in a maze he had built under the castle. Madusa. A snake haired gorgon. If you look at her eyes and get turned to stone.

alayna
Download Presentation

Famous Greek Monsters

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Famous Greek Monsters By John Graham

  2. Minotaur • A half man half bull monster. • Minos owned the minotaur. • So he sealed it in a maze he had built under the castle.

  3. Madusa • A snake haired gorgon. • If you look at her eyes and get turned to stone. • She used to be a mortal woman until Athena changed her.

  4. Hydra • It’s a nine headed dragon with poisonous breath. • Cut off a head and two new ones grow back instantly it guards the entrance to the under world. • One head is immortal. • Man believes it can’t be destroyed.

  5. Cyclops • One eyed beast. • it can smash a human in a single flick. • The first Cyclops were black smiths. • The last ones are shepherds.

  6. Sphinx • It haves a body of a loin, wings of a bird, and head of a woman. • It pounces on its victims (only young men). • It strangles them to death then she eats them.

  7. Typhon • He have a such big head that it brush the stars. • It scared the gods. • They barley beat him once • It is now trapped under a mountain.

  8. Cerberus • It’s a three headed dog beast. • That guards the entrance to the underworld. • If the dead attempts to escape he will eat them. • One hit from its tail is fatal.

  9. Harpies • It has a face of a woman and a body of a vulture • They shriek, peck, and nag. • They spoil any thing that touches them. • they harass sailors. • They are sent to bring an one that is not willing to die to the underworld.

  10. Chimaeras • It has three heads. • A lion head and a lion front paws. • Goat head and goat hind legs. • A dragon headed tail. • Name comes from its master Charia. • It vomits flames.

  11. Siren • They have a head of a woman and a body of a bird. • They live at three rocky islands off the coast of Italy. • Their song messes with the sailors minds. • Orpheus does not here their song by droning it out with his lyre.

  12. Hecatoncheires • It has fifty heads and one hundred arms. • Created by Cronus and Gaia. • They are brothers of the Titan and the Cyclopes. • They were imprisoned beneath the earth. • Zeus released them the Hecatoncheires from the poison Cronus put them in.

More Related