5 Comments
Oct 25Liked by Classical Wisdom

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.

Expand full comment

Okay- so obviously the monsters of Greek mythology are all killer cannibals who are hard to defeat....

Expand full comment
author

Killer cannibals often are...

Expand full comment

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"?

Expand full comment
Oct 26Liked by Classical Wisdom

This is a well put together list, although I would have included Echidna (the Mother of Monsters, and consort of Typhon)...

Expand full comment