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👤 Typhon

  • <span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="11292134" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_11292134">🏺 the Shield of Hippomedon</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-11352" data-type_id="11352" data-object_id="11321537" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-11352_11321537">🎨 Throne of Apollo at Amyclai (LIMC Acheloos 219)</span>
  • Alternative names
    Typhos, Typhoios
    Information
    son of Ge
    Son of
    👤 Ge (personification) 👤 Hera 👤 Tartaros (personification)
    Father of
    👤 Phaia (sow) 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👤 the Chimaira 👤 Orthos (dog) 👤 Sphinx 👤 the Hydra 👤 Ladon (serpent) 👤 the Caucasian Eagle
    Husband of
    👤 Echidna
    Has children with
    👤 Echidna
    Born at
    🌍 Cilicia (SE Asia Minor)
    Eponym of
    🌍 River Typhon (alt. Orontes)
    Creates
    🌍 River Orontes (Syria)
    Wounded by
    🏺 the Adamantine Sickle of Cronos 👤 Zeus 🏺 the Thunderbolt of Zeus
    Dies at
    🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily) 🌍 the Land of the Arimoi (unlocatable) 🌍 Catacecaumene (Mysia)
    Killed by
    👤 Zeus 🏺 the Thunderbolt of Zeus
    Buried at
    🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily) 🌍 Lilbaion (Sicily) 🌍 Pithecoussai (island) 🌍 Pelorias (Sicily) 🌍 Cape Pachynos (Sicily)
    Dwelling
    🏛️ the Corycian Cave (Cilicia)🏛️ the Cave of Typhon (Cilicia)
    Related Entities
    👤 Aigipan 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Ares 👤 Phaia (sow) 👤 Artemis 👤 Athena 👤 Atlas 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👥 the Charites 👤 the Chimaira 👤 Coios (Titan) 👤 Delphyne (Cilician) 👤 Dionysos 👤 Echidna 👤 Ephialtes (Boiotian) 👤 Ge (personification) 👤 Hera 👤 Iapetos 👤 Ouranos 👤 Hades 🏺 the Adamantine Sickle of Cronos 👤 Zeus 👥 the Giants🌍 the Underworld 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👤 Orthos (dog) 👤 Otos (Boiotian) 👥 the Horai 👤 Leto 👥 the Moirai 👤 Python 👤 Sphinx 🌍 Tartaros 👥 the Titans 🏺 the Thunderbolt of Zeus🌍 Egypt 🌍 Mount Haimos (Thrace) 🌍 Sicily (island) 👤 Tartaros (personification) 🌍 Cilicia (SE Asia Minor) 🏛️ the Corycian Cave (Cilicia)🌍 Mount Casios (Assyria) 🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily) 🌍 Mount Nysa (unlocatable) 🌍 Lilbaion (Sicily) 👤 the Hydra 👤 Ladon (serpent) 👤 the Caucasian Eagle 🌍 Assyria 🌍 the Land of the Arimoi (unlocatable) 🌍 Naples (Italy) 🌍 the Lipari Islands 👥 the Olympian Gods🌍 Hyde (Lydia) 🌍 Pithecoussai (island) 🌍 Baiai (Campania) 🌍 River Orontes (Syria) 🌍 Cumae (Campania) 👤 Hesychia (personification) 🌍 Pelorias (Sicily) 🏛️ the Cave of Typhon (Cilicia)🌍 the Promontory of Sarpedon (Cilicia) 🌍 Dicaiarchia (Italy) 🌍 River Typhon (alt. Orontes) 🌍 Catacecaumene (Mysia) 🌍 the Arima Mountains (Cilicia) 🌍 Cape Pachynos (Sicily)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.3.1📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.10📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.11📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.6.3📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.8📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 662-711📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 820-833📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1351-1361📖 Pausanias 3.18.10📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 300-355📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 356-374📖 Homer, Iliad 2.780-2.785📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 1.1-1.4📖 Hesiod, Theogony 306-332📖 Hesiod, Theogony 820-835📖 Hesiod, Theogony 836-885📖 Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 486-520📖 Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 343-375📖 Pindar, Olympian 4 1-27📖 Pindar, Pythian 1 13-29📖 Pindar, Pythian 8 1-20📖 Pindar fr. 92 Snell-Maehler📖 Pindar fr. 93 Snell-Maehler📖 Pomponius Mela 1.76📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.253-3.315📖 Strabo 16.2.7📖 Vergil, Georgics 1.276-1.286📖 Strabo 13.4.6📖 Strabo 13.4.11📖 Strabo 5.4.9📖 Strabo 12.8.19📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.250-5.331📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.332-5.384📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 28📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.1-14.39
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, EpitomeApollodoros, LibraryHomer, IliadHesiod, TheogonyLycophron, AlexandraPausaniasPindar Homeric Hymn 3 to ApolloStraboAeschylus, Seven Against ThebesAeschylus, Prometheus BoundPindar, Olympian 4Pindar, Pythian 1Pindar, Pythian 8Antoninus Liberalis, MetamorphosesPomponius MelaOvid, MetamorphosesVergil, Georgics
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Homer, Iliad 2.780-2.785📖 Hesiod, Theogony 306-332📖 Pindar, Pythian 1 13-29📖 Pindar fr. 92 Snell-Maehler📖 Pindar fr. 93 Snell-Maehler📖 Demetrios of Scepsis BNJ 2013 fr. 39📖 Callisthenes FGrHist 124 fr. 33📖 Xanthos of Lydia FGrHist 765 fr. 13📖 Nicander, Heteroeumena fr. 59 Gow-Scholfield
    Depictions
    🎨 Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1801; LIMC Achilleus 376)🎨 Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1975)🎨 Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B988; LIMC Achilleus 376)🎨 Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1643)🎨 Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1912; LIMC Achilleus 377)🎨 Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1888)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B5124)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B4081)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B3638)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B4477)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B8429)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B7515)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B2328)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B6570)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B8794)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B987; LIMC Achilleus 377)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1803; LIMC Achilleus 377)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1642)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1802)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1636)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B977)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B519, B624)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B466)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B315)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B316)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B4962; LIMC Achilleus 376)🎨 Fragments of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B8882)🎨 Fragments of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B8384)🎨 Fragments of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B8367)🎨 Fragments of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1973)🎨 Fragments of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B8364)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from the Sanctuary of Poseidon, Isthmia (LIMC Aigisthos 3)🎨 Fragments of Gilded Silver Diadem (Getty 83.AM.343)
    Reported depictions
    🏺 the Shield of Hippomedon🎨 Throne of Apollo at Amyclai (LIMC Acheloos 219)
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