By: Isaura Rodriguez

1. TYPHOEUS The Immortal Storm-giant By: Isaura Rodriguez Period 4

2. Typhon • He was known as the “Father of all monsters” • He was considered the largest and most fearsome creature • His human upper half reached as high as the stars • His hands reached east and west and • instead of a human head, he had a hundred dragon heads • Typhon's hundred, horrible heads touched the stars, venom dripped from his evil eyes, and lava and red-hot stones poured from his gaping mouths. Hissing like a hundred snakes and roaring like a hundred lions, he tore up whole mountains and threw them at the gods.

3. His Name • Greek name-Τυφωευς Τυφων/Τυφαων Τυφως • Transliteration-Typhôeus/Typhôn/Typhaôn/Typhôs • Latin Spelling-Typhoeus/ Typhon/ Typhaon • Translation-Cyclone, Hurricane, Smoking One (typhô) • Greeks also frequently represented him as a storm-demon, especially in the version where he stole Zeus's thunderbolts and wrecked the earth with storms.

4. Typhon’s appearance • Typhoeus was so huge that his head was said to brush the stars. He looked like a normal man from head to hips, but he had two coiled snake tails instead of legs. He had wings, with dirty matted hair and beard, pointed ears, and eyes flashing fire. • According to some he had two hundred hands each with fifty serpents for fingers and a hundred heads, one in human form with the rest being heads of bulls, boars, serpents, lions and leopards. • Typhoeus hurled red-hot rocks at the sky and storms of fire boiled from his mouth, like a volcano.

5. Parents and siblings • Mother-Gaia • Father-Tartarus • Siblings-Uranus, Kronus, Pontus, the Ourea, Hecatonchires, Cyclopes, Titans, The Gigantes, Nereus, Thaumus, Phorcys, Ceto, Eurybia, and Aphrodite • Youngest child of his brothers and sisters

6. Meet the Children • Wife- Echinda • Children- Orthrus, Nemean Lion, Cerberus, Ladon, Chimera, Sphinx, and Hydra • Orthus- fearsome two-headed dog, Eurytion (his master), and the Hesperid Erytheia, guarded the red cattle of Geryon. Both were slain, along with Geryon, when Heracles stole the red cattle • The Nemean Lion- very big lion with skin that you can’t stab; Selene (the moon goddess) loved it for some reason. Heracles was ordered to kill the Nemean lion. He used the lion’s own claw to skin it, and he wore the skin as his armor. • Cerberus- three-headed dog that guarded of the passage way to and from the Underworld with Hades

7. (Continued) Meet the Children • Ladon- serpentine dragon. He rapped himself around the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides at the behest of Hera, who appointed him the garden's guardian. He was later on killed by Heracles. • The Chimera- youngest child & daughter; she was a fire-breathing lioness with a goat’s head coming from its back and a snake as a tail. She roamed the ancient kingdom of Lycia bringing bad omens and destruction in her wake. She was killed by Bellerophon and his horse Pegasus. • Sphinx- hadf the head of a woman, the body of a lion, and the wings of a bird. It was typhon’s smartest daughter.

8. The battle with Zeus • Typhon and his wife Echidna were so fearful that when the gods saw them changed into monsters and fled in terror. Zeus soon regained his courage and turned, and when the other gods saw him taking his stand, they came back to help him fight Typhoeus. A terrible battle raged, and hardly any living creature was left on Earth. But Zeus was fated to win, and as Typhon tore up Mt. Etna to throw it at the gods, Zeus struck it with a hundred well-aimed thunderbolts and the mountain fell back, pinning Typhon underneath. There the monster lies to this very day, belching fire, lava and smoke through the top of the mountain.

9. Where Typhon was trapped • Typhon was trapped under Mt. Etna • It is located in the Island of Sicily, Italy • The picture in the right corner is Mt. Etna • The picture below is where it’s located

10. Sources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoeus • http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/typhon.htm • http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/Typhoeus.html

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