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Asbolus Chariclo, wife of the centaur Chiron Chiron, the eldest and wisest of the Centaurs. The ancient Trainer of Heroes.
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Cerberus, the three-headed, giant hound that guarded the gates of Hades
Charybdis, a sea monster whose inhalations formed a deadly whirlpool Chimera, a three-headed monster, with the foreparts of a lion, the middle-parts of a goat and rising snake for its tail.
Empousa, a vampiric demon with a leg of bronze and a hoofed foot of a donkey; she seduced men in order to feed on their flesh and blood
Medusa, the sister capable of turning men to stone with her gaze, cursed by Athena for being with Poseidon in her temple.
Stheno, the most murderous of the sisters Euryale sister most known for her death-bellowing screams
Graeae, three old women with one tooth and one eye among them
Harpies, winged monsters with the bodies of birds and the heads and torsos of women
Hippalectryon, a creature with the fore-parts of a rooster and the body of a horse
Hippocampi, sea creatures with the fore-parts of horses and the tails of fish
Ichthyocentaurs, a pair of marine centaurs with the upper bodies of men, the lower fronts of horses, and the tails of fish
Ipotane, a race of half-horse, half-humans Kobaloi, a species of mischievous creatures, fond of tricking or frightening humans
Manticore, a monster with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion.
Minotaur, a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man; slain multiple times.
Mormo, a vampiric creature who bit bad children Lamia, a vampiric demon which preyed on children Hydra, a 7 headed, land and water-dwelling, serpent-like creature that guarded an Underworld entrance beneath Lake Lerna. It was destroyed by Heracles, in his second Labour
Furies, the three goddesses of pain. Worked for Hades in the Underworld to punish evil souls. Created from the blood of Uranus.
Nessus, a ferryman at the river Styx Ophiotaurus, a creature part bull and part serpent Orthrus, a two-headed, serpent-tailed dog, slain by Heracles Panes, a tribe of nature-spirits which had the heads and torsos of men, the legs and tails of goats, goatish faces and goat-horns
Pholus, a wise centaur and friend of Heracles Satyrs and Satyresses, companions of Pan and Dionysus which had human upper bodies, and the horns and hindquarters of a goat
Scylla - dwelt on a cliff on the side of a narrow strait where, on the other side, Charybdis lived. Scylla would reach down with one of her many heads and pluck sailors off the decks of the ships they were voyaging in. Scylla was loved by Poseidon, but Circe also loved him. Filled with jealousy, she turned Scylla into a monster with four eyes and six long necks, that had grisly heads, three rows of sharp teeth, 12 tentacle like legs, a cats tail, and six dog heads lining her waist. Poseidon still loved Scylla.
Sileni, a race of elderly Satyrs Sirens, three beautiful mermaid like women whose irresistible song lured sailors to their deaths
Taraxippi, ghosts that frightened horses Telekhines, skilled metal-workers with the heads of dogs and flippers of seals in place of hands
Amphisbaena,a snake with two heads, one at each end of the body
Arion, the immortal horse of Adrastus Balius and Xanthus, the immortal horses of Achilles Calydonian Boar, a gigantic boar sent by Artemis to ravage Calydon and slain in the Calydonian Boar Hunt
Ceryneian Hind, an enormous deer which was sacred to Artemis; Heracles was sent to retrieve it as one of his labours
Golden Fleece, from a golden-haired winged ram, which was held in Colchis.
Erymanthian Boar, a gigantic boar which Heracles was sent to retrieve as one of his labours
Karkinos, a giant crab which fought Heracles alongside the Hydra Laelaps, a dog destined always to catch its prey Mares of Diomedes, four man-eating horses belonging to the giant Diomedes
Nemean Lion, a gigantic lion whose skin was impervious to weapons; it was strangled by Heracles
Pegasus, a divine winged horse Phoenix, a golden-red bird of which only one could live at a time, but would burst into flames to form a new phoenix
Sphinx has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face of a woman
Stymphalian Birds, man-eating birds with beaks of bronze and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims
Agrius, a man-eating Thracian giant who was half man and half bear Alcyoneus, the eldest of the Thracian giants, killed by Heracles, made to oppose Hades
The Aloadae, twin giants who attempted to storm Olympus Alops, a Sicilian giant, slain by Dionysus Anax, a Lydian giant Antaeus, a Libyan giant who gained strength from constant contact with the earth and wrestled to death all visitors to his realm until slain by Heracles
Argus Panoptes, a hundred-eyed giant tasked with guarding over Io Chrysaor, a son of Medusa, sometimes said to be a giant Cyclopes (Younger), three one-eyed giants who forged Zeus' thunderbolt, Hades' cap of invisibility, and Poseidon's storm-raising trident
Cyclopes (Elder), a tribe of one-eyed cannibalistic dwarfs who shepherded flocks of sheep on the island of Sicily
Polyphemus, a cyclops who briefly captured Odysseus and his men, only to be overcome and blinded by the hero
The Hekatoncheires, the Hundred-Handed Ones, giant gods of violent storms and hurricanes.
Briareus or Aigaion (), The Vigorous Cottus (), The Furious Gigges (), The Big-Limbed
Hyperborean,The giants of the North, made of ice Enceladus, one of the Thracian giants who made war on the gods; he was defeated and buried underneath Mount Etna
The Gegenees, a tribe of six-armed giants fought by the Argonauts on Bear Mountain in Mysia
Geryon, a three-bodied, four-winged giant who dwelt on the red island of Erytheia
Polybotes, a giant who fought Poseidon during the Gigantomachy Porphyrion, a giant who made war on the Olympians and was killed by Heracles. In Hesiod, he was king of the giants
Tityos, a giant slain by Apollo and Artemis when he attempted to violate their mother Leto.
Typhon, a monstrous immortal storm-giant who was defeated and imprisoned by Zeus in the pit of Tartarus
The Colchian Dragon, an unsleeping dragon which guarded the Golden Fleece
The Ismenian Dragon, a dragon which guarded the sacred spring of Ares near Thebes; it was slain by Cadmus
The Lernaean Hydra, a seven-headed dragon which guarded the springs of Lerna; it was slain by Heracles
Python, a dragon which guarded the oracle of Delphi; it was slain by Apollo
Ethiopian Cetus, a sea monster sent by Poseidon to ravage Ethiopia and devour Andromeda, which was slain by Perseus
Trojan Cetus, a sea monster which plagued Troy before being slain by Heracles
Caucasian Eagle, a giant eagle set by Zeus to feed on the everregenerating liver of Prometheus; it was variously described as an automaton and a son of Echidna
The Hippoi Kabeirikoi, four bronze horse-shaped automatons crafted by Hephaestus to draw the chariot of the Cabeiri
The Keledones, singing maidens sculpted out of gold by Hephaestus The Khalkotauroi, fire-breathing bulls created by Hephaestus as a gift for Aetes
The Kourai Khryseai, golden maidens sculpted to Hephaestus to attend him in his household
Panotii, a tribe of northern men with gigantic, body-length ears Pygmies, a tribe of one and a half foot tall African men who rode goats into battle against migrating cranes