2015 Medusa Mythology Exam: Monsters in Corporibus Syllabus

2015 Medusa Mythology Exam: Monsters In corporibus Syllabus

BODY TYPES: Big-boned, Feathered, Mutated Multiples, Quadrupeds, Scaled, and Fractae Feminae BIG-BONED Short description In stories with . . . 1. Antaeus Famous for wrestling.  Heracles 2. Cacus A fire-breathing giant.  Hercules 3. Crab aka Karkinos/Carcinus; a giant crab.  Heracles  Hera 4. Cyclopes Three immortal giants, each with one eye in the center of his  Uranus forehead.  Titans  Cronus  Zeus  Poseidon  Hades 5. Giants (of the Mainly human shape BUT had serpents’ tails attached to their  Olympians Gigantomachy) legs or feet, NOT the hundred-armed giants 6. Laestrygonians Cannibals/man-eating giants  Odysseus 7. Minotaur Cretan monster with a bull’s head and a man’s body.  Theseus  Pasiphae 8. Otus and Ephialtes Twin giants. Known as Aloiadae or Aloadae or “sons of  Ares Aloeus.”  Artemis  Hera  Apollo  Artemis 9. Talos A bronze giant.  Argonauts 10. Tityus An Euboean giant.  Apollo and Artemis 11. Typhon A monster with 100 burning snake heads.  Zeus  Olympians FEATHERED 12. Harpies Birdlike female monsters.  Odysseus  Argonauts  Aeneas 13. Sirens Bird women who lured sailors with their songs.  Argonauts  Odysseus 14. Stymphalian birds Birds that infested Lake Stymphalus.  Heracles MUTATED MULTIPLES 15. Argus A man with many eyes.  Hera  Hermes 16. Cerberus The watchdog of Hades.  Orpheus  Heracles 17. Geryon A three-headed man or had the body of three men from the  Heracles waist down. 18. Hecatoncheires Three giants, each with 50 heads and 100 arms.  Cronus  Zeus 19. Orthus A two-headed dog.  Heracles 20. Scylla A monster with a woman’s head and six dogs for legs or six  Argonauts heads on long necks.  Odysseus QUADRUPED 21. Bronze bulls of Aeetes Fire-breathing bulls.  Argonauts of Colchis 22. Cerynitian Hind A golden-horned deer.  Heracles 23. Chimaera A fire-breathing Lycian monster with either three heads or  Bellerophon the front parts of a lion, the middle of a goat, and a snake’s tail or all of these at once. 24. Cretan Bull A bull sacred to Poseidon.  Poseidon  Heracles  Theseus 25. Crommyonian A wild pig.  Theseus Sow/Phaea 26. Erymanthian Boar A giant boar that lived on Mount Erymanthus.  Heracles 27. Man-eating mares of Four mares that ate human flesh.  Heracles 28. Diomedes 29. Nemean Lion A monstrous lion.  Heracles 30. Nessus A centaur (half horse/half-man)  Heracles 31. Pegasus A winged horse.  Bellerophon 32. Sphinx A female monster who could fly.  Poseidon  Heracles  Theseus SCALED 33. Colchian dragon An ever-wakeful giant serpent.  Argonauts 34. Echidna A half-nymph, half-speckled snake (Heisod).  Famous for her children 35. Hydra A multi-headed serpent; when one head was lopped off, two  Heracles more grew in its place. 36. Ladon A 100-headed snake.  Heracles 37. Python A monstrous snake/dragon.  Apollo

FRACTAE FEMINAE 38. Charybdis A whirlpool on the western side of the northern entrance to  Odysseus the Strait of Messina 39. Furies/Erinyes Female spirits who punished offenders against blood kin.  Giants 40. Gorgons Three snaky-haired monsters.  Perseus 41. Graeae Two (sometimes three) ancient hags.  Perseus 42. Medusa The only mortal Gorgon.  Perseus