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Greek Monsters and Creatures

Greek Monsters and Creatures. Mythology. Myths: Used to help explain what is not clearly understood; explain the unexplainable . Common Myths: Medusa Hercules Achilles. Mythic Heroes: Do things we wish we could do and the things we are glad we don’t have to do.

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Greek Monsters and Creatures

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  1. Greek Monsters and Creatures Mythology

  2. Myths: Used to help explain what is not clearly understood; explain the unexplainable Common Myths: Medusa Hercules Achilles

  3. Mythic Heroes: Do things we wish we could do and the things we are glad we don’t have to do.

  4. A powerful person with unusual gifts • Undertakes superhuman tasks • Sometime is helped by the gods What is a mythic hero?

  5. Always face great difficulties and challenges • Often helped by the gods • May be a god themselves • Have supernatural powers • Saves a whole society from ruin • Helps to defeat “Monsters” Heroes in myths…

  6. a head and torso of a human with the legs and behind of a horse Centaur

  7. the three-headed, giant hound that guarded the gates of the Underworld Cerberus

  8. a three-headed monster, with the foreparts of a lion, the middle-parts of a goat and a snake for its tail. Chimera

  9. three cursed sisters with serpents for hair Medusa Stheno Euryale Gorgons

  10. a creature with the fore-parts of a rooster and the body of a horse Hippalectryon

  11. sea creatures with the fore-parts of horses and the tails of fish Hippocampi

  12. a pair of marine centaurs with the upper bodies of men, the lower fronts of horses, and the tails of fish Ichthyocentaurs

  13. a monster with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and a tail that can shoot spikes Manticore

  14. a many-headed, serpent-like creature that guarded an Underworld entrance beneath Lake Lerma. Hydra

  15. a creature part bull and part serpent Ophiotaurus

  16. a two-headed, serpent-tailed dog Orthrus

  17. many-headed, tentacled monster who fed on passing sailors Scylla

  18. skilled metal-workers with the heads of dogs and flippers of seals in place of hands Telekhines

  19. Sirens three beautiful mermaid/bird like women whose irresistible song lured sailors to their deaths Sirens

  20. three old women with one tooth and one eye among them Graeae

  21. A GIANT: man-eating Thracian giant who was half man and half bear Agrius

  22. one-eyed giants Cyclopes

  23. a three-bodied, four-winged giant who dwelt on the red island of Erytheia Geryon

  24. man-eating birds with beaks of bronze and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims Stymphalian Birds

  25. has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face of a woman Sphinx

  26. a creature that combines the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle Gryphon or Griffon

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