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Typhon (Typhoeus)


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This image is for Flavius' reference & is borrowed from www.theoi.com

 

Zeus & Typhon in battle

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The depiction of Typhon looks pretty cool.

were his offspring not imprisoned below Vesuvius?

 

In a lot of poetic accounts Typhon himself was trapped under Mt. Etna. As for the offspring, Herakles killed a bunch of them as did Bellerophontes and Theseus.

 

"Men say that Typhaon the terrible, outrageous and lawless, was joined in love to her [Ekhidna], the maid with glancing eyes. So she conceived and brought forth fierce offspring; first she bare Orthos the hound of Geryones, and then again she bare a second, a monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, Kerberos who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound of Haides, fifty-headed, relentless and strong. And again she bore a third, the evil-minded Hydra of Lerna, whom the goddess, white-armed Hera nourished, being angry beyond measure with the mighty Herakles ... She was the mother of Khimaira who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift-footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion; in her hinderpart, a dragon; and in her middle, a goat, breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire. Her did Pegasos and noble Bellerophontes slay." - Hesiod, Theogony 306

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