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Celebrating #Halloween 🎃👻 with some ancient monsters. Let's start with the Gorgon, perhaps the best-known monster from Classical Mythology. The snake-haired Medusa was one of the three Gorgons. Anyone who looked at her face was turned to stone.
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Celebrating #Halloween 🎃👻 with some ancient monsters. Let's start with the Gorgon, perhaps the best-known monster from Classical Mythology. The snake-haired Medusa was one of the three Gorgons. Anyone who looked at her face was turned to stone.
#ClassicalMonsters
The Minotaur was a bull-headed monster that devoured human flesh deep within the twisting maze of the Labyrinth. It was the offspring of the Cretan Queen Pasiphae and a snow-white bull. The monster was eventually slain by the Athenian hero Theseus.
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#ClassicalMonsters #Halloween
The Ketos was a huge sea creature sent by Poseidon to ravage the land of Aethiopia after Queen Kassiopeia boasted that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids. Perseus slew Ketos to save Andromeda from being sacrificed to it.
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#ClassicalMonsters #Halloween
As promised, here is today's #ClassicsHalloween thread on the 'vampiric' creatures of Greek mythology. The first of these will be Lamia, whose name means 'Devourer'.
It's amusing to me to remember that I first encountered Lamia as a kid, in my D&D 'Monstrous Manual'
It's amusing to me to remember that I first encountered Lamia as a kid, in my D&D 'Monstrous Manual'
Lamia was a beautiful Libyan woman who was loved by Zeus. But every time she gave birth to a child he had fathered, the infant was murdered by Zeus' jealous wife, Hera, until Lamia was made mad with grief.
In her despair and frenzy, she envied the happiness of every mother more fortunate than herself; she began snatching and eating their children. The savage cruelty in which she now indulged rendered her ugly, and her face became fearfully distorted.
