Chimera
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Lycia, Anatolia
- Greek
Lion, goat and serpent in one body, breathing fire, killed by Bellerophon from the air. Lycia has natural gas vents that have burned continuously for millennia.
Known for
- three animals in one
- fire-breathing
- killed from horseback in the air
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.