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 .