Typhon
c. 700 BCE – 400 CEattested
Cilicia and Sicily
- Greek
Last son of Earth, with a hundred serpent heads and a body that reached the stars. Zeus needed every thunderbolt he had and still nearly lost. Imprisoned under Etna, where he still rumbles.
Known for
- hundred serpent heads
- nearly defeated Zeus
- imprisoned under a volcano
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.