1. MONSTERS

2. Sirens Personality destructive and wicked sisters
Distinguishing Features
beautiful female faces and voices
have birdlike bodies with wings and claws
irresistible voices lure sailors to the impassable reef
Story
friends of Persephone
when Sirens didn’t protect their friend when she was being carried off by Pluto, they were transformed into half-woman, half-bird creatures
then lived on a barren island that was one of the entrances to the underworld
whenever a ship would pass, they sang, hoping it was Persephone
no one could resist the beautiful voices, so they sailed closer to the gates to the underworld
every time the Sirens realized Persephone was not on board, they tore the crew limb from limb and sent them to the underworld

3. Chimaera Personality fierce and lethal to mortals Career
killing and devouring humans
Distinguishing Features
head of a lion
the body of a goat
a serpent tail
Supernatural Attributes
Fire breathing

4. Cerberus Personality ferocious Career
guards the gates of the underworld
Distinguishing Features
dog
3 heads
Supernatural Attributes
immortality
his spit produces the aconite flower which contains a poison

5. Cerberus

6. Argus Career Hera’s (Zeus’s wife) servant Distinguishing Features
100 eyes, never all closed at once

7. Echidne Distinguishing Features half woman half serpent
Supernatural Attributes
gives birth to other monsters; Orthus Cerberus, Hydra, Chimaera, Sphinx, Nemean Lion

8. Gorgon Story offended Athene
once beautiful creatures were turned into monsters
Personality
evil
destructive
Distinguishing Features
wings
bronze claws
hissing serpents for hair
Supernatural Attribute
turn anyone who looks at them to stone
Their den could be easily recognized because it has the statues of its many victims

9. Scylla Distinguishing Features female six heads tentacles/fish tail
ring of snarling dogs around her waist
Story
lives under a rock right across from the rock Charybdis, another creature, lives under
Scylla and Charybdis are always near each other
whenever sailors try to pass between both the rocks, they have to stay midway
if they go too the right six sailors will be pulled off her tentacles and eaten by one of the six heads.
Odysseus was one of the few that actually made it through safely.

10. DEMI-GODS AND GODDESSES
( born from a god and a mortal)

11. Centaurs Distinguishing Features half man half horse Personality wild
savage
violent
Supernatural Attribute
able to teach riding, shooting bow and arrow, and giving advice
Chiron
known for his exceptional decency and wisdom
only immortal centaur
trained some famous Greek heroes, including Achilles and Jason

12. Centaurs

13. Cyclops Distinguishing Features giant one-eyed Personality
extremely bad-tempered
Supernatural Attributes
live an enormously long life
amazing strength
Story
three Cyclops representing thunder, lightning, and lightning bolt
Brontes, Steropes, and Argres
Cronus imprisoned them
Zeus released them
as a reward for releasing them they gave him his weapon of the lightning bolt

14. Cyclops

15. Erinyes Career troubled the conscious of murderers Personality
persistent and terrifying to the guilty
but no problem at all to the innocent
Distinguishing Features
three of them
female
when in pursuit of their victims they have a dog’s head
snakes for hair
bat wings
Supernatural Attributes
immortality
being able to inflict psychological torture on their victims

16. Nymphs Distinguishing Features lovely women
represent spirits of nature
usually are found near trees, water, or mountains depending on the sort
Personality
many different types with many different personalities
Kinds
Dryads (forests), Naiads (springs or rivers), Nereid (the Mediterranean), who can change shape at will, the Oceanids (sea), the Oreads (mountains), the Limonaids (meadows), the Limniads (lakes, marshes, and swamps), and the Napaea (valleys)
male form of a nymph is a satyr.
worshiped in a nymphaeum, or monumental fountain.

17. NATURAL PHENOMENON

18. Charybdis Distinguishing Features gigantic whirlpool Personality
pitiless
doesn’t differentiate between good and evil
Scylla is normally near her

19. Clashing Rocks Distinguishing Features two rocks Career
try to crush sailors that go between them
attempted the destruction of Jason and the Argonauts
Personality
sinister
ominous
craggy cliffs

20. Bibliography www.factsforlearning.com
Greek Myths and Legends. By Cheryl Evans and Anne Millard. ©1985. Pages