What are some popular greek beasts, monsters and demons?

Question

I need to do a puppet show on this and i was given beasts and i already have the basilisk, the chimera and tthe griffen/griffon and if there are more popular ones please give them to me. I was also wondering if you could to give me some demons and monsters. THANK Yooou :D

Answer 1

your mom!!! BAHAHAHAHAHA omg i'm soooooo jk. um isn't hercules one???

Answer 2

The Hydra was a giant snake with nine heads. The Cyclops was a giant man with one eye in the middle of his forehead. Satyrs were men with goat legs and horns, Centaurs were men with a horse's body from the waist down. Gorgons were women with snakes for hair, the most well known of which was Medusa, who could turn people into stone by just looking at them.

Answer 3

a centaur is a combination of a man and horse

a minotaur of a man and bull

the mermaid, half woman and half fish

Lernaean Hydra serpent-like chthonic water beast that possessed numerous heads

a Cyclops is a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single round eye in the middle of its forehead.

Medusa was a monstrous chthonic female (snakes on head instead of hair) character; gazing upon her could turn onlookers to stone.

Tálos was a giant winged man of bronze

Stymphalian Birds were man-eating birds with claws of brass and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and also they were Ares' pets.

Pegasus was a winged horse

Cerberus was the hound of Hades, a monstrous three-headed dog with a snake for a tail (sometimes said to have 50 or 100 heads) called a hellhound. Other hell hounds included Orthus, his two headed brother and Argos. Cerberus guarded the gate to Hades and ensured that spirits of the dead could enter, but none could exit (additionally, no living person was to come into Hades).

the Chimera is a monstrous creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, which was made of the parts of multiple animals.

Echidna (Greek: Έχιδνα) (ekhis, meaning "she viper") was called the "Mother of All Monsters". Echidna was described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate Typhoeus (or Typhon) every major monster in the Greek myths,


The Nemean Lion had been terrorizing the area around Nemea, and had a skin so thick that it was impenetrable to weapons. When Heracles first tackled it, his weapons - bow and arrow, a club made from an olive tree (which he pulled out of the ground himself) and a bronze sword - were all ineffective. At last Heracles threw away his weapons and wrestled the lion to the ground, eventually killing it by thrusting his arm down its throat and choking it to death. (In some variants, Heracles actually strangled the beast, or broke its jaw.)

Ladon was the serpent-like dragon that twined round the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the golden apples

the Teumessian fox (Greek: Alopekos Teumesios) was a gigantic fox that was destined never to be caught. The fox was one of the children of Echidna. It was said that it had been sent by the gods (perhaps Dionysus) to prey upon the children of Thebes as a punishment for some national crime.

Laelaps was a Greek mythological dog who never failed to catch what he was hunting

Scylla is a horribly grotesque sea monster, with six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Her body consisted of twelve canine legs and a fish's tail.

the Gorgons, vicious female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes.

Answer 4

Here is a good website
http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/beasts.html

Dragon teeth men
Argus Panoptes
Myrmidons
Cretan Bull
Typhon
Ceto
Echidna
Ladon
.....the list goes on

Answer 5

The Gorgon (think Medusa)
Pegasus
Hydra (multi-headed dragon-like beast)
Satyr (goat-man)
Minotaur (bull-man)
Nymph (water or tree-dwelling creatures)
Titans (pre-Gods)
Harpy (bird-women)

Answer 6

The cyclops is a popular one.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Cyclops is the first one that sprung to my mind

Good luck :)

Answer 9

Centaur(half man half horse)

Answer 10

consider cerberus, a popular hellhound.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus

or if not, there are countless others:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Greek_legendary_creatures

Answer 11

cyclops, pixies and sprites and all that good stuff and gods and goddesses