Monster or creature
Giants, beasts and monsters of Greek myth.
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Cerberus
The many-headed hound that guards the gates of the Underworld, usually shown with three heads. Heracles’…
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The Minotaur
Half man, half bull, kept in the Labyrinth at Knossos and fed on young Athenians, until…
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The Hydra
Many-headed water serpent of Lerna. Cut off one head and two grow back. Heracles’ nephew Iolaus…
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The Sirens
Creatures whose song lured sailors onto the rocks. Odysseus heard them tied to the mast, while…
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Scylla
A six-headed monster in a cliff cave who snatches sailors from passing ships. Odysseus lost six…
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The Nemean Lion
A lion whose hide no weapon could pierce. Heracles strangled it as his first labour and…
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Charybdis
A whirlpool monster opposite Scylla that swallows the sea three times a day. “Between Scylla and…
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The Cyclopes
In Hesiod, three giant one-eyed smiths, Brontes, Steropes and Arges, who forged Zeus’s thunderbolt. Homer’s Cyclopes…
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The Harpies
Winged “snatchers” who stole the food of the blind king Phineus until the Argonauts drove them…
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The sea monster
The monster sent by Poseidon to devour Andromeda. Perseus killed it. The constellation Cetus is named…
