Chimaera
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Chimaera the animal
the Chimaera
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Mythical hybrid monster cited as an example of something never existent whose image nonetheless arises in the mind.
What of those things that never existed at all and could not exist, such as Scylla, or the Chimaera?
Theogony
A fire-breathing monster with the forepart of a lion, the hindpart of a dragon, and a goat in the middle, mother of the Sphinx and Nemean lion with Orthus, slain by Pegasus and Bellerophon.
Her did Pegasus and noble Bellerophon slay;
She was the mother of Chimaera who breathed raging fire, a creature fearful, great, swift footed and strong, who had three heads, one of a grim-eyed lion, another of a goat, and another of a snake, a fierce dragon;
Republic
A composite mythological monster invoked as an example of a creature with many forms grown together in one
One of those natures that the ancient fables tell of, said I, as that of the Chimaera or Scylla or Cerberus, and the numerous other examples that are told of many forms grown together in one.