Typhon

Family: Argos · Role: mythic figure · First appears: Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3

Life events

• Zeus's thunderbolt defeated Typhon, burning him and leaving him powerless beneath Ætna.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 2 · 📍 Ætna)
  • With: Zeus
  • “But the unsleeping dart of Zeus came on him, Down-swooping thunderbolt that breathes out flame, Which from his lofty boastings startled him, For he i' the heart was struck, to ashes burnt, His strength all thunder-shattered; and he lies A helpless, powerless carcase, near the strait Of the great sea, fast pressed beneath the roots Of ancient Ætna”

Aeschylus, The Seven Who Fought Against Thebes — Scene 3

• enemies with Zeus “Antagonist to Zeus, unloved by men / And by the ageless Gods,”

Also listed in Argos — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.