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ECHIDNA Mother of all monsters
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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
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MONSTERS IN MYTH
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Typhon - father to monsters
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Typhon - father to monsters
Home & outcome: Pinned under Mount Aetna by Zeus Description: Human male head, serpent/dragon body, hundred heads
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Offspring of Echidna & Typhon
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Nemean Lion
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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
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Cerberus
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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
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Ladon
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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
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Chimera
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Chimera Home: Lycia in Asia Minor Description: goat/lion/serpent
Outcome: killed by Bellerophon with molten lead
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THESE MONSTERS ARE NOT ON THE TEST:
SPHINX HYDRA
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Sphinx
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Hydra
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