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[[Image:Echidna1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A modern illustration (author unknown)]] | [[Image:Echidna1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A modern illustration (author unknown)]] | ||
'''Echidna''' was called the "Mother of All Monsters" and described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate [[Typhon]] every major monster in the Greek mythos. | '''Echidna''' was called the "Mother of All Monsters" and described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate [[Typhon]] every major monster in the Greek mythos. | ||
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==Family== | ==Family== | ||
Usually considered offspring of [[Tartarus]] and [[Gaia]], or of [[Ceto]] and [[Phorcys]] (according to Hesiod) or of Chrysaor and the | Usually considered offspring of [[Tartarus]] and [[Gaia]], or of [[Ceto]] and [[Phorcys]] (according to Hesiod) or of Chrysaor and the naiad Callirhoe, or Peiras and Styx (according to Pausanias, who did not know who Peiras was aside from her father) | ||
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# [[Teumessian fox]] | # [[Teumessian fox]] | ||
Some sources also include the | Some sources also include the Gorgons and the Graeae as her children. | ||
According to Herodotus (III.108), Hercules had three children by her: | According to Herodotus (III.108), Hercules had three children by her: | ||
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[[Image:Echidna.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Appolon facing Echidna]] | [[Image:Echidna.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Appolon facing Echidna]] | ||
==Places== | ==Places== | ||
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*[http://www.loggia.com/myth/echidna.html Mythography article] | *[http://www.loggia.com/myth/echidna.html Mythography article] | ||
*Kark Kerenyi, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks'' (Thames and Hudson) | *Kark Kerenyi, 1951. ''The Gods of the Greeks'' (Thames and Hudson) | ||