Echidna

Also known as: Lernæan Echidna · Role: parent of the Sphinx · First appears: Fable 68

Life events

• Hercules subdues and kills Echidna despite her multiplying heads.(Fable77)
  • With: Hercules
  • “Yet her I subdued, branching with serpents springing from {each} wound, and growing stronger by her disasters; and, {so} subdued, I slew her.”

Fable 68

• child: Sphinx “The Sphinx was a monster, the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, which haunted a mountain near Thebes.”

Fable 77

• enemies with Hercules “{Yet} her I subdued, branching with serpents springing from {each} wound, and growing stronger by her disasters; and, {so} subdued, I slew her.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.