Monster · Individual

Chimaera

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name: Chimaera
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Monster
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: Explicitly called a savage monster and described as one composite lion-, serpent-, and goat-bodied being; no component animal identities are proposed.

Aliases

savage monster

Descriptive reference · Reported

invincible Chimaera

Epithet · Remembered

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

·Reported

Glaucus describes the Chimaera as a savage nonhuman goddess with lion head, serpent tail, goat body, and fire-breathing power.

See evidence text

“that savage monster, the Chimaera, who was not a human being, but a goddess, for she had the head of a lion and the tail of a serpent, while her body was that of a goat, and she breathed forth flames of fire”

·Direct

The invincible Chimaera was reared by Amisodorus and became the bane of many.

See evidence text

“Amisodorus, who had reared the invincible Chimaera, to the bane of many.”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Reported

“that savage monster, the Chimaera, who was not a human being, but a goddess”

·Remembered

“reared the invincible Chimaera”