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    Typhon

    mythological figure · 7 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages

    Cilician Typhon · Typhaon · hundred-headed monster · terrible hundred-headed Typhon · that enemy of the gods

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Typhaon“Typhon”1 mention

    Theogony (Greek)

    Men say that Typhaon the terrible, outrageous and lawless, was joined in love to her, the maid with glancing eyes.
    theogony

    in the texts

    PythianClassical · Greek

    A hundred-headed monster, enemy of the gods, imprisoned beneath Mount Aetna and identified with its volcanic fire.

    That monster shoots up the most terrible jets of fire;
    chapter 1
    among them is he who lies in dread Tartarus, that enemy of the gods, Typhon with his hundred heads.
    chapter 1
    Such a creature is bound beneath the dark and leafy heights of Aetna and beneath the plain, and his bed scratches and goads the whole length of his back stretched out against it.
    chapter 1

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Hostile god deposed by Horus, and later the pursuer from whom the infant Apollo/Horus was hidden on the island of Khemmis.

    he deposed Typhon, and was the last divine king of Egypt.
    chapter 2
    that on this island that did not move before, Leto, one of the eight gods who first came to be, who was living at Buto where this oracle of hers is, taking charge of Apollo from Isis, hid him for safety in this island which is now said to float, when Typhon came hunting through the world, keen to find the son of Osiris.
    chapter 2

    TheogonyClassical · Greek

    A terrible, outrageous, and lawless being who is joined in love to Echidna and fathers her monstrous brood.

    Men say that Typhaon the terrible, outrageous and lawless, was joined in love to her, the maid with glancing eyes.
    theogony

    Barlaam and JosaphatMedieval · Greek

    Egyptian god who murders his brother Osiris and is later killed by Horus.

    nor did Typhon the brother-slayer, perishing by Horus and Isis, find means to deliver himself from death.
    chapter 27

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    Hundred-headed monster held down beneath Mount Aetna by Zeus.

    Son of Cronus, you who hold Aetna, the wind-swept weight on terrible hundred-headed Typhon, receive, for the sake of the Graces, this Olympic victory-procession, this most enduring light of widely powerful excellence.
    chapter 4

    PhaedrusClassical · Greek

    Monstrous mythological being Socrates invokes as a point of comparison while reflecting on self-knowledge.

    And so I dismiss these matters and accepting the customary belief about them, as I was saying just now, I investigate not these things, but myself, to know whether I am a monster more complicated and more furious than Typhon or a gentler and simpler creature, to whom a divine and quiet lot is given by nature.
    phaedrus

    De AnimaLate Antiquity · Latin

    Figure named among the legendary sources of magical doctrine.

    Either it is best to be detained here, according to the ‘aori,’ or worst, according to the ‘biaeothanatoi’ — that I may use the very words by which magic, the authoress of these opinions, sounds:
    de anima