540–530 BC), depicts Typhon as a winged humanoid from the waist up, with two snake tails for legs below. Three of Pindar's poems have Typhon as hundred-headed (as in Hesiod), while apparently a fourth gives him only fifty heads, but a hundred heads for Typhon became standard. The Homeric Hymn to Apollo describes Typhon as "fell" and "cruel", and like neither gods nor men. And there were voices in all his dreadful heads which uttered every kind of sound unspeakable for at one time they made sounds such that the gods understood, but at another, the noise of a bull bellowing aloud in proud ungovernable fury and at another, the sound of a lion, relentless of heart and at another, sounds like whelps, wonderful to hear and again, at another, he would hiss, so that the high mountains re-echoed. From his shoulders grew a hundred heads of a snake, a fearful dragon, with dark, flickering tongues, and from under the brows of his eyes in his marvelous heads flashed fire, and fire burned from his heads as he glared. Strength was with his hands in all that he did and the feet of the strong god were untiring. Descriptions Īccording to Hesiod, Typhon was "terrible, outrageous and lawless", immensely powerful, and on his shoulders were one hundred snake heads, that emitted fire and every kind of noise: Hera, angry at Zeus, buries the eggs in Cilicia "under Arimon", but when Typhon is born, Hera, now reconciled with Zeus, informs him. So Hera goes to Cronus, her and Zeus' father (whom Zeus had overthrown), and Cronus gives Hera two eggs smeared with his own semen, telling her to bury them underground, and that from them would be born one who would overthrow Zeus. Gaia, angry at the destruction of the Giants, slanders Zeus to Hera. The b scholia to Iliad 2.783, preserving a possibly Orphic tradition, has Typhon born in Cilicia, as the offspring of Cronus. In Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Typhon is called the "dweller of the Cilician caves", and both Apollodorus and the poet Nonnus (4th or 5th century AD) have Typhon born in Cilicia. 470 BC) calls Typhon "Cilician", and says that Typhon was born in Cilicia and nurtured in "the famous Cilician cave", an apparent allusion to the Corycian cave in Turkey. Several sources locate Typhon's birth and dwelling place in Cilicia, and in particular the region in the vicinity of the ancient Cilician coastal city of Corycus (modern Kızkalesi, Turkey). Hera gave the infant Typhon to the serpent Python to raise, and Typhon grew up to become a great bane to mortals. Hera, angry at Zeus for having given birth to Athena by himself, prayed to Gaia, Uranus, and the Titans, to give her a son stronger than Zeus, then slapped the ground and became pregnant. However, according to the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (6th century BC), Typhon was the child of Hera alone. Numerous other sources mention Typhon as being the offspring of Gaia, or simply "earth-born", with no mention of Tartarus. The mythographer Apollodorus (1st or 2nd century AD) adds that Gaia bore Typhon in anger at the gods for their destruction of her offspring the Giants. 8th – 7th century BC), Typhon was the son of Gaia (Earth) and Tartarus: "when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven, huge Earth bore her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite". In later accounts, Typhon was often confused with the Giants.Īccording to Hesiod's Theogony (c. 500 BC) also identified with the Egyptian god of destruction Set and also with Yahweh by Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Typhon's story is also connected with that of Python (the serpent killed by Apollo), and both stories probably derived from several Near Eastern antecedents. Typhon mythology is part of the Greek succession myth, which explained how Zeus came to rule the gods. Defeated, Typhon was cast into Tartarus, or buried underneath Mount Etna, or in later accounts, the island of Ischia. The two fought a cataclysmic battle, which Zeus finally won with the aid of his thunderbolts. Typhon attempted to overthrow Zeus for the supremacy of the cosmos. Typhon and his mate Echidna were the progenitors of many famous monsters. However, one source has Typhon as the son of Hera alone, while another makes Typhon the offspring of Cronus. According to Hesiod, Typhon was the son of Gaia and Tartarus. Typhon ( / ˈ t aɪ f ɒ n, - f ən/ Ancient Greek: Τυφῶν, romanized: Typhôn, ), also Typhoeus ( / t aɪ ˈ f iː ə s/ Τυφωεύς, Typhōeús), Typhaon ( Τυφάων, Typháōn) or Typhos ( Τυφώς, Typhṓs), was a monstrous serpentine giant and one of the deadliest creatures in Greek mythology. 540–530 BC), Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. Zeus aiming his thunderbolt at a winged and snake-footed Typhon.
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