Typhaon
Also known as: Typhoeus / fell, cruel Typhaon · Family: unknown · Role: child · First appears: Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1
In Part 1 of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Hera bore Typhaon in anger after Zeus gave birth to Athena from his head, and the she-dragon received him from Hera and brought him up. In Part 2, when the months and days were fulfilled and the seasons came, Hera bore him as “fell, cruel Typhaon, to be a plague to men”; straightway, she gave him to the dragoness, who received him.
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Life events
- The she-dragon receives Typhaon from Hera and brings him up to plague mankind.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)
- With: the she-dragon (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1) Hera
- “She it was who once received from gold-throned Hera and brought up fell, cruel Typhaon to be a plague to men.”
- Hera bore Typhaon, a monstrous plague to men.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 2)
- With: Hera
- “she bare one neither like the gods nor mortal men, fell, cruel Typhaon, to be a plague to men.”
- Hera gave Typhaon to the dragoness, who received him.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 2)
- With: Hera
- “Straightway large-eyed queenly Hera took him and bringing one evil thing to another such, gave him to the dragoness; and she received him.”
Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1
- guardian: the she-dragon (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1) “She it was who once received from gold-throned Hera and brought up fell, cruel Typhaon to be a plague to men.”
- parent: Hera “Once on a time Hera bare him because she was angry with father Zeus, when the Son of Cronos bare all-glorious Athena in his head.”
- guardian: Hera “She it was who once received from gold-throned Hera and brought up fell, cruel Typhaon to be a plague to men.”
Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 2
- parent: Hera “But when the months and days were fulfilled and the seasons duly came on as the earth moved round, she bare one neither like the gods nor mortal men, fell, cruel Typhaon, to be a plague to men.”
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.