Echidna
A woman serpentine monster,
offspring of Phorycs and Ceto. Sister of the
Graeae and the Gorgons. Textual assets are
Apollodorus’s Library (2.1.2, 2.3.1, 2.Five.11, three.5.Eight,
Epitome 1.1) and Hesiod’s Theogony (295–
332). Alternately, her dad and mom are given as Gaia
and Tartarus. In Hesiod’s Theogony, Echidna
is a component beguiling, beautiful lady and component
big snake, immortal and ageless. She eats
uncooked flesh and lives in a cave deep in the earth in
Arima. The offspring of Echidna and Typhoeus
are Cerberus, the 3-headed dog who guards
the entrance to Hades; the Chimaera; the
Hydra of Lerna; and Orthus, the canine that
guards the farm animals of Geryon (see Heracles).
The Lernian Hydra and Orthus were slain by
Heracles, and he efficac
