He later gifted it to Athena, who placed the head of Medusa on her shield. The Greek hero Perseus killed Medusa and used her head as a weapon to turn his enemies into stone. The God of the Seas, Poseidon, raped her and Athena punished her (since she couldn’t punish Poseidon) by turning her into that ugly creature. According to some accounts, she was not always a terrifying monster but a beautiful priestess at the Temple of Athena. Medusa is definitely the most famous and notorious among her kind. The famous sisters were Stheno, Euryale and Medusa. The Gorgons were three deadly sisters whose hair was made of living, venomous snakes and they could turn anyone into stone just by looking into their eyes. Other well-known Dracaenae were Ceto and Scylla (see further below). Echidna, like other female monsters that had the upper body of a beautiful woman and the lower body of any sort of dragon, was part of the Dracaenae (female dragon monsters). After their defeat by the Olympians and the banishment of Typhon, Echidna and her offspring lived on to challenge future heroes. As mentioned above, her mate was the monster Typhon. In Greek mythology, Echidna gave birth to many famous monsters that we encounter in Greek myths. She was living in a cave, deep down beneath the Earth. She was immortal and used to drag her victims to earth-shattered pits where she liked to devour them alive. She had a seductive woman's face and a reptile’s body. Echidna was half a winged woman with glittering eyes and half a huge, scaly serpent.

Zeus, the King of the Olympians, confronted Typhon by throwing 100 lightning bolts on him and trapped him under Mount Etna in Sicily. Together, they once attacked the Olympian Gods but lost. His mate was Echidna (see below), with whom he fathered many famous monsters of Greek mythology. Typhon was a monster that even the Olympians were afraid of. He had huge wings and fire flashed from his eyes. His bottom half consisted of gigantic viper coils which made a hissing noise. Some say he had a human-like upper half and others that instead of one head he had a hundred dragon heads. His appearance would be accompanied by a devastating storm and his true form was thus hard to be described accurately.

Typhon was the last child of Gaia, fathered by Tartarus, and is considered the most powerful and deadliest of all creatures in Greek mythology.

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