THE MONSTERS OF GREEK MYTH

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THE MONSTERSOF GREEK MYTH
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CYCLOPES
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CYCLOPES

• Three one-eyed giants who forged the weapons of
  the gods.

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CENTAURS
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CENTAURS

• A tribe of creatures who had the heads and torsos
  of men and the bodies of horses .
• - Chiron (Kheiron) The wisest of the Centaurs and
  mentor of many Greek heroes.

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SATYRS
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SATYRS

• A tribe of nature-spirits with the body of men,
  the tails of horses, pug noses and the ears of
  asses.

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THE SIRENS
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THE SIRENS

• Monsters with the heads of women and the bodies
  of birds. They dwelt on the island of Anthemoessa
  and lured sailers to their death with their
  irresistible song.

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THE SIRENS

• The only man to hear their song and live was
  Odysseus who had himself bound to the ship's
  mast, in frustration the Sirens leapt into the
  sea and drowned.

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GORGONS
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GORGONS

• Three monstrous Libyan sisters with broad faces,
  staring eyes, flaring nostrils, wiry beards,
  tusks and protruding tongues.

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GORGONS

• Their heads were wreathed in snakes, a pair of
  golden wings sprung from their backs, and in
  place of hands they had brazen claws.

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GRAIAE WOMEN
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GRAIAE WOMEN

• Three old hags born with grey hair, wrinkled skin
  and only one tooth and one eye between them

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Furies
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THE FURIES

• THE ERINYES were Underworld Goddesses of
  vengeance and retribution (especially for the
  crimes of children against their parents).
• Those that the Erinyes sought to punish they
  pursued relentlessly, driving them to madness and
  despair for their crimes, until, through ritual
  purification, they were cleansed of their sins.

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THE FURIES

• The three underworld daimones were depicted as
  fierce-looking, snaky-haired women armed with
  vicious serpents and whips and each equipped with
  a wide pair of wings.

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MINOTAUR
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MINOTAUR

• A Cretan monster with the head of a bull and the
  hairy body of a man.

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SPHINX
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SPHINX

• A Theban monster with the head of a woman and the
  body of a lioness.

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HARPIES
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HARPIES

• Three winged sisters who were called the hounds
  of Zeus. They were known to snatch people away
  and were sent to torment the blind Phineus by
  stealing his food.

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CLASHING ROCKS(Symplegades)
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SYMPLEGADES

• Two floating cliffs that swung together and
  crushed anything going between them until Jason's
  ship, the Argo, passed safely through them. They
  remained still forever after, forming the
  entrance to the Black Sea.

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SCYLLA CHARYBDIS
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SCYLLA CHARYBDIS

• Scylla A monstrous sea-dracaena with the upper
  body of a beautiful nymphe, the serpentine-tail
  of a sea-monster and sprung from her waist a ring
  of six dog foreparts.
• Charybdis A giantess who was chained to the
  sea-bed and whose inhalations formed a deadly
  whirlpool.

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HYDRA
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HYDRA

• The nine-headed serpent of Lerna who sprung two
  heads for every one which was decapitated. It was
  slain by Heracles.

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CERBERUS
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CERBERUS

• The three-headed, giant hound that guarded the
  gates of Hades. It had lion's feet, a mane of
  serpents and the tail of a viper.

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CHIMERA
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CHIMERA

• This was a monstrous fire-breathing female
  creature of Lycia, composed of the parts of
  multiple animals upon the body of a lioness with
  a tail that ended in a snake's head, the head of
  a goat arose on her back at the center of her
  spine. The Chimera was one of the offspring of
  Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters
  as Cerebus and the Lernaean Hydra.