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1 ECHIDNA Mother of all monsters

2 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

3 MONSTERS IN MYTH

4 Typhon - father to monsters

5 Typhon - father to monsters
Home & outcome: Pinned under Mount Aetna by Zeus Description: Human male head, serpent/dragon body, hundred heads

6 Offspring of Echidna & Typhon

7 Nemean Lion

8 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

9 Cerberus

10 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

11 Ladon

12 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

13 Chimera

14 Chimera Home: Lycia in Asia Minor Description: goat/lion/serpent
Outcome: killed by Bellerophon with molten lead

15 THESE MONSTERS ARE NOT ON THE TEST:
SPHINX HYDRA

16 Sphinx

17 Hydra

18 Works Cited Googleimages.com


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