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 Home & outcome: Pinned under Mount Aetna by Zeus Description: Human male head, serpent/dragon body, hundred heads
Offspring of Echidna & Typhon
Nemean Lion
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
Cerberus
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
Ladon
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
Chimera
Chimera Home: Lycia in Asia Minor Description: goat/lion/serpent Outcome: killed by Bellerophon with molten lead
THESE MONSTERS ARE NOT ON THE TEST: SPHINX HYDRA
Sphinx
Hydra
Works Cited Googleimages.com http://pentangle5.tripod.com/capedcrusaders/id11.html