Typhoeus

First appears: Hesiod, Theogony 713-820

Life events

• Earth bears Typhoeus, fathered by Tartarus with Aphrodite’s aid.(Hesiod, Theogony 713-820)
  • With: Earth Tartarus Aphrodite
  • “huge Earth bare her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite.”
• Zeus defeats Typhoeus with thunderbolts and casts him into Tartarus.(Hesiod, Theogony 713-820 · 📍 Tartarus)
  • With: Zeus
  • “But when Zeus had conquered him and lashed him with strokes, Typhoeus was hurled down, a maimed wreck”
• Zeus casts the defeated Typhoeus into wide Tartarus.(Hesiod, Theogony 713-820 · 📍 Tartarus)
  • With: Zeus
  • “And in the bitterness of his anger Zeus cast him into wide Tartarus.”

Hesiod, Theogony 713-820

• parent: Earth “huge Earth bare her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite.”
• parent: Tartarus “huge Earth bare her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite.”
• with Aphrodite (Aphrodite aided Typhoeus's birth.) “huge Earth bare her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite.”
• enemies with Zeus “So when Zeus had raised up his might and seized his arms, thunder and lightning and lurid thunderbolt, he leaped from Olympus and struck him, and burned all the marvellous heads of the monster about him. But when Zeus had conquered him and lashed him with strokes, Typhoeus was hurled down, a maimed wreck, so that the huge earth groaned.”

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