Typhon
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Typhon, also known as Typhoeus, Typhaon or Typhos, was a monstrous serpentine giant and one of the deadliest creatures in Greek mythology. According to Hesiod, Typhon was the son of Gaia and Tartarus.
Zeus aiming his thunderbolt at a winged and snake-footed Typhon. Chalcidian black-figured hydria (c. 540–530 BC), Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 596).
Depiction by Wenceslaus Hollar
The three-bodied daemon, perhaps Typhon. Acropolis Museum, Greece.
Tarhunna battles the serpent Illuyanka, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey.
Enceladus (Giant)
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In Greek mythology, Enceladus was one of the Giants, the offspring of Gaia and Uranus. Enceladus was the traditional opponent of Athena during the Gigantomachy, the war between the Giants and the gods
Athena (left) fighting Enceladus (inscribed retrograde) on an Attic red-figure dish, c. 530 BC (Louvre CA3662)
Athena and Giant (presumably Enceladus), Temple E (Selinus).
Gilt-bronze Enceladus by Gaspar Mercy in the Bosquet de l'Encélade in the gardens of Versailles