0
edits
Echidna: Difference between revisions
From All About Dragons
→Family
No edit summary |
(→Family) |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[Image:Echidna1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A modern illustration (author unknown)]] | [[Image:Echidna1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A modern illustration (author unknown)]] | ||
| Line 26: | Line 25: | ||
==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) | ||
| Line 42: | Line 41: | ||
# [[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: | ||
| Line 50: | Line 49: | ||
[[Image:Echidna.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Appolon facing Echidna]] | [[Image:Echidna.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Appolon facing Echidna]] | ||
==Places== | ==Places== | ||
