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Cyclopes | gigantic one eyed monsters,They were also the first smiths |
Giants | Giants were generated from Uranus blood resulting from his castration by Cronus |
Cerberus | the three headed dog with a dragon tail which guards the entrance to the underworld. |
Sirens | Beautiful half-woman, half-birdlike creatures who sang such sweet songs that listeners forgot everything and died of hunger. The Sirens are sisters who lure sailors to their death |
Centaurs | half man, and half horse;Most are wild and savage, known for lustfulness and drunkeness |
Chiron | the only centaur known for his exceptional goodness and wisdom. He was the only immortal centaur |
Medusa | one of the three sisters known as the Gorgons;her hair was snakes and she was so ugly that she turned anyone who looked at her into stone |
Chimaera | had three heads - lion, goat, and snake .Its body was also mixed having the front part of a lion, middle of a goat, and snake for a tail. |
Gorgons | female monsters with snakes for hair. Their faces are so ugly that any man that see the face will turn to stone |
Pegasus | a winged horse and good flyer |
Minotaur | half man, half bull |
The Pleiades | the daughters of Atlas seven in number: Electra, Maia, Taygete, Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, and Sterope |
The Nereids | the daughters of Nereus and Doris, fifty in number;All of them lovely, they are the nymphs of the sea. |
Amphitrite | One of the Nereids. She is the wife of Poseidon. Her son is Triton. |
Triton | The trumpetor of the sea. His trumpet is a great shell. He is the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. |
Minos | the King of Create. He was the son of Zeus and Europa |
Mount Olympus | Here the major gods live and hold court |
The Underworld | It is the kingdom of the dead and ruled over by Hades. |
Tartarus | Deeper then Hades kingdom of the underworld. It is used as the ultimate of prisons, unpleasent and inaccessable. |
nymphs | any member of a large class of mythological entities in human form;Nymphs live in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers,also in trees and in valleys and cool grottoes |
Perseus | killed Medusa |
Theseus | Athens's great hero |
Heracles | best known as the strongest of all mortals;the last mortal son of Zeus. He is the only man born of mortal woman to become a god upon his death |