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ECHIDNA

ECHIDNA. Mother of all monsters. ECHIDNA - Mother to monsters . Home : a cave Outcome: Zeus let her live for her offspring to be challenges to future heroes Description: Female human head, serpent body. MONSTERS IN MYTH. Typhon - father to monsters. Typhon - father to monsters.

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ECHIDNA

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  1. ECHIDNA Mother of all monsters

  2. ECHIDNA- Mother to monsters • Home: a cave • Outcome: Zeus let her live for her offspring to be challenges to future heroes • Description: Female human head, serpent body

  3. MONSTERS IN MYTH

  4. Typhon - father to monsters

  5. Typhon - father to monsters • Home & outcome: Pinned under Mount Aetna by Zeus • Description: Human male head, serpent/dragon body, hundred heads

  6. Offspring of Echidna & Typhon

  7. Nemean Lion

  8. Nemean Lion • Home: valley of Nemea • Description: Huge lion with an impenetrable hide • Outcome: Hercules squeezed the Nemean lion, then skinned the monster with its own claws; Hercules wears the hide

  9. Cerberus

  10. Cerberus • Home: guardian of the Underworld • Description: gigantic three-headed dog • Outcome: Hercules squeezed him until he was tame, took him from the Underworld, but then returned Cerberus to his home

  11. Ladon

  12. Ladon • Home: The Garden of the Hesperides; guardian of the golden apple tree • Description: hundred-headed dragon • Outcome: shot and killed by Hercules with an arrow

  13. Chimera

  14. Chimera • Home: Lycia in Asia Minor • Description: goat/lion/serpent • Outcome: killed by Bellerophon with molten lead

  15. THESE MONSTERS ARE NOT ON THE TEST: SPHINXHYDRA

  16. Sphinx

  17. Hydra

  18. Works Cited • Googleimages.com • http://pentangle5.tripod.com/capedcrusaders/id11.html

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