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Half-eagle, half-lion hybrid
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Griffin
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Half-horse, half-human hybrid
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Centaur
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Golden-red bird that bursts into flames at its death and rebirths from its ashes
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Phoenix
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Giant bearing a single eye; built Zeus’s thunderbolt in the Theogony
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Cyclops
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Large serpentine water monster with multiple, regrowing heads
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Lernaean Hydra
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Monstrous hybrid of a lion, a goat, and a snake; killed by Bellerophon
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Chimera/Chimaera
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Winged, flying horse rode by Bellerophon
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Pegasus
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Three-headed dog guarding the gates to the Underworld
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Cerberus
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Half-snake, half-woman hybrid; can turn people to stone with a single glare
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Gorgon
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Half-man, half-bull hybrid killed by Theseus
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Minotaur
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Monstrous serpentine giant; enemy of Zeus
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Typhon
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Half-snake, half woman; wife of the above; mother of many monsters
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Echidna
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Enormous sea monster that destroyed ships in the Strait of Messina; nearly capsized Odysseus’s ship
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Charybdis
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Horrible monster living across from its above counterpart
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Scylla
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Female personification of nature
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Nymph
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Nymph of trees, especially oak trees
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Dryad
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Nymph presiding over fresh water
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Naiad
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Horse-fish hybrid created by Poseidon
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Hippocampus
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Aquatic creature similar to the centaur with its hind legs being the tail of a fish
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Ichthyocentaur
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Half-woman, half-bird; lured sailors to their death with its voice
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Siren
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Male nature spirit with ears and tail of a horse and an exaggerated erection
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Satyr
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Hideous bird-woman hybrid; personification of storm winds
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Harpy
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Woman-lion hybrid with the wings of an eagle; kills those who cannot answer her riddle
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Sphinx
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Female demon who takes children from their mothers and devours them
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Lamia
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Large sea monster that was killed by Perseus to save Andromeda
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Cetus
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Serpentine creature with two heads, one at its tail
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Amphisbaena
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Creature resembling a Cape buffalo whose stare of breath can kill people
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Catoblepas
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Wise sisters who shared one tooth and one eye
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Grey Sisters/Graeae
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Giant made of bronze created to protect Crete from invaders
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Talos
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Large monstrous boar captured by Heracles as his fourth labour
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Erymanthian Boar
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Giant with one hundred eyes all over his body; killed by Hermes
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Argus Panoptes
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Fearsome giant with three heads and three bodies known for his cattle
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Geryon
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Serpent-like dragon that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides
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Ladon
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Vicious lion-like monster whose skin was impenetrable; killed by Heracles as his first labour
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Nemean Lion
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Three monstrous giants with fifty heads and one hundred arms who helped Zeus to overthrow the Titans
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Hecatoncheires
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Man-eating birds with sharp, metallic feathers they could launch; killed by Heracles as his fifth task
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Stymphalian Birds
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Shapeshifting female demon with a single copper leg who seduces young men and devours them
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Empusa/Empousa
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Two-headed dog guarding Geryon’s cattle; killed by Heracles during his tenth labour to steal Geryon’s cattle
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Orthrus/Orthus
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Race of humanoids similar to the centaurs, save for that they only had two horse legs instead of four; possible ancestors of the centaurs
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Ipotane
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Man-eating giants borne from Laestrygon, Poseidon’s son; encountered Odysseus and killed most of his men
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Laestrygonians
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