1/9/2024 0 Comments Chimera horse" On the left stand Ekhidna (Echidna) and Typhos, on the right Tritones. " are wrought in relief the exploits of Argive heroes, that of Bellerophontes against the Khimaira (Chimera)." Khimaira, a ravine extending up from the shore, is not far from them." The scene of the myth of Khimaira (Chimera) is laid in the neighborhood of these mountains. "Kragos (Cragus), which has eight promontories and a city of the same name. "Bellerophon, slayer of the fire-breathing Khimaira (Chimera)." Bellerophon mounted Pegasos (Pegasus), his winged horse born of Medousa (Medusa) and Poseidon, and flying high into the air brought down the Khimaira with his bow and arrows." It was allegedly reared by Amisodaros (Amisodarus), as Homer also states, and according to Hesiod its parents were Typhon and Ekhidna (Echidna). It despoiled the countryside and ravaged the herds. For it was a single being that had the force of three beasts, the front part of a lion, the tail of a drakon, and the third-middle-head was that of a goat, through which it breathed out fire. "He ordered Bellerophon to slay the Khimaira (Chimera), assuming that he would instead be destroyed himself by the beast, since not even a quantity of men could subdue it with ease, let alone one. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : "One of those natures that the ancient fables tell of, as that of the Khimaira (Chimera) or Skylla (Scylla) or Kerberos (Cerberus), and the numerous other examples that are told of many forms grown together in one." "And felled Khimaira (Chimera) breathing fire." ![]() ![]() Against cruel death neither Typhoeus shall avail you nor ill-famed Khimaira (Chimera), but here, shall the Earth and shining Hyperion make you rot ( pytho).’" "Phoibos (Phoebus) Apollon boasted over her : ‘. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th - 4th B.C.) : "With him Bellerophon caught and slew the fire-breathing Khimaira (Chimera)." Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : Hesiod, Catalogues of Women Fragment 7 (trans. But she also, in love with Orthos (Orthrus), mothered the deadly Sphinx. But Khimaira (Chimera) was killed by Pegasos (Pegasus) and gallant Bellerophon. Her heads were three: one was that of a glare-eyed lion, one of a goat, and the third of a snake, a powerful drakon (serpentine-dragon). "She bore the Khimaira (Chimera), who snorted raging fire, a beast great and terrible, and strong and swift-footed. "Amisodaros (Amisodarus), the one who had nourished the furious Khimaira (Chimera) to be an evil to many." He killed the Khimaira, obeying the portents of the immortals." "First he sent him away with orders to kill the Khimaira (Chimera) none might approach a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES Bellerophon, Pegasus and the Chimera, Laconian black-figure kylix C6th B.C., The J. In the works of art recently discovered in Lycia, we find several representations of the Chimaera in the simple form of a species of lion still occurring in that country. 665, &c.), which is described as the scene of the events connected with the Chimaera. 15), or in the volcanic valley near the Cragus (Strab. ![]() The origin of the notion of this fire-breathing monster must probably be sought for in the volcano of the name of Chimaera near Phaselis, in Lycia (Plin. 288) places her together with other monsters at the entrance of Orcus. § 1.) She was killed by Bellerophon, and Virgil ( Aen. ![]() 319, &c.), she was a daughter of Typhaon and Echidna, and had three heads, one of each of the three animals before mentioned, whence she is called trikephalos or trisômatos. The fore part of her body was that of a lion, and the hind part that of a dragon, while the middle was that of a goat. She was brought up by Amisodarus, king of Caria, and afterwards made great havoc in all the country around and among men. SPHINX, NEMEIAN LION (by Orthos) (Hesiod Theogony 327)ĬHIMAERA (Chimaira), a fire-breathing monster, which, according to the Homeric poems, was of divine origin. TYPHOEUS & EKHIDNA (Hesiod Theogony 319, Homeric Hymn 3.356, Apollodorus 2.32 & Hyginus Pref & Fabulae 151) OFFSPRING Late classical writers believed the creature was a metaphor for a Lycian volcano. He rode into battle on the back of the winged horse Pegasos and drove a lead-tipped lance into its flaming throat, choking the beast on molten metal. The hero Bellerophon was commanded by King Iobates to slay the beast. It was a bizarre fire-breathing creature with the body and head of a lion, a goat's head rising from its back, the udders of a goat, and a serpent for a tail. THE KHIMAIRA (Chimera) was a three-headed monster which ravaged the countryside of Lykia (Lycia) in Anatolia. Chimera Chimera, South Italian red-figure kylix C4th B.C., Musée du Louvre
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