According to Apollodorus, when the monster Typhon severed Zeus' sinews and confined the god in a cave, Typhon set the she-dragon Delphyne to guard Zeus, to prevent his escape. But Hermes and Aegipan managed to recover Zeus' sinews and rescue Zeus without Delphyne detecting their presence.
Hesiod made no mention of this she-dragon when he described the battle between Zeus and Typhon.
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Typhon was a giant winged monster with a hundred heads. Typhon (Τυφών) was an offspring of Gaea ("Earth") and Tartarus, and according to Apollodorus, the creature was born in Cilicia. Typhon was a gigantic winged monster that was part man and part...
Python was the giant serpent that guarded the Oracle of Delphi. Some traditions say that Hera sent the Python to attack Leto, the mother of Apollo and Artemis. Apollo killed the monster. Apollo took over the oracle and held the Pythian Games in ho...
Ladon was the dragon with a hundred heads which guarded the golden apples of Hesperides. Ladon could also speak with countless different voices. Ladon was an offspring of Typhon and Echidna, or of Phorcys and Ceto. In his eleventh labour, Heracles...
Delphi was a city in Phocis. Delphi was famous for its oracle. The area and the oracle used to belong or were sacred to Gaea (earth). Later, it was sacred to Themis, a Titaness, who then passed it to her sister Phoebe. Finally, Delphi was passed o...
Campe was a vicious fire-breathing female monster that had only one purpose in life. She is a famous character in Greek mythology. Interestingly, the death of Campe plays a very important role in the infamous Titanomachy. Here we have gathered all...
Echidna was a monster, part woman and part snake. She was the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, or perhaps of Tartarus and Gaea. By Typhon, Echidna was the mother of many monstrous offspring: Cerberus, Chimaera, Orthus, the Hydra, the Nemean Lion, the...
The Hydra (Ὕδρα) was the monstrous offspring of Typhon and Echidna. The Hydra lived in the near the spring Amymone, at Lerna. The monster lived with a giant crab. The Hydra had nine heads. One of them was immortal, and therefore invulnerable to we...
Chimaera was a fire-breathing monster that lived in the mountains around Lycia. Chimaera was another monstrous offspring of Typhon and Echidna. Chimaera had the head and body of a lion, the legs of a goat, and had a snake instead of a tail. Some i...
A group of winged women. There were said to be only two harpies: Aello and Ocypetes, the daughters of Thaumas, the son of Pontus and Gaea, and the Oceanid Electra. They were the sisters of Iris. Later writers said there was a third Harpy. The best...
King of Salmonia, in Elis, Salmoneus (Σαλμωνεύς) was the father of Tyro (Τυρώ) by Alicidice, daughter of Aleüs (Aleus), king of Arcadia. Not long after taking his second wife, Sidero (Σιδηρύ), Salmoneus' daughter bore twin sons, Neleus (Νηλεύς) an...