I'm a little disappointed Ctesias' four-footed gold-guarding birds from India didn't make the list 😕. As big as wolves, legs and claws resembling those of a lion, red breast feathers against a black body, they sound pretty monstrous to me... Or is it because these are "real"?
Amazing! I love how those times you could go on a travel and come back with a unique story like this, being talked by your people as a hero.
Okay- so obviously the monsters of Greek mythology are all killer cannibals who are hard to defeat....
Killer cannibals often are...
I'm a little disappointed Ctesias' four-footed gold-guarding birds from India didn't make the list 😕. As big as wolves, legs and claws resembling those of a lion, red breast feathers against a black body, they sound pretty monstrous to me... Or is it because these are "real"?
This is a well put together list, although I would have included Echidna (the Mother of Monsters, and consort of Typhon)...