Most Popular Animals in Greek Mythology

Now we are back to Greece! We're not gonna blab about the gods again, it's all about the animals int the Greek myth. They played range of roles in the lives of the Greek myth, from devouring to helping. The animals below is some of them which are the most popular. Which one is your favorite (we've just made monsters sound like products, huh)?

Medusa

She goes on this list of animal and animal-like creatures from mythology because she was transformed by Athena into a woman snakey hair. One look at Medusa can turn a human being to stone! Creepy... From her severed head sprang the winged horse Pegasus, whose father was Poseidon.

Chiron

Don't mistake hime to Charon, the ferry man, was half man and half horse because he was a Centaur. Some would ask, what's a Centaur? It is a mythical creature with the head of human and body of a horse. He was the son of Cronus and is credited with inventing medicine.

Minotaur

A Minotaur was also half-human and half-animal creature, but in this case, it's a bull. Unlike the Centaur, his bull half is usually shown as his head. His mother was the Queen of Crete, Pasiphae. His father was a bull Pasiphae fell in love with. The minotaur ate young Athenian men and women.

Pegasus

It was a winged horse that was born from the bleeding body of his mother Medusa when Perseus chopped off her head, Pegasus sprang forth with a warrior named Chrysaor on his back.

Learnean Hydra

Remember Hercules? Yeah, this one's pretty much like that thing Hercules beat. Lernaean monster had nine heads, and one of these was immortal. If ever a mortal head was cut, from the stump would immediately spring forth two new heads. It lived in the swamps and ravaged the countryside devouring cattle.

 

Trojan Horse

It was a wooden device designed by Odysseus to get the Greek troops inside the Trojan Walls. The Trojans took the horse as a gift not knowing it was filled with warriors. The Trojan Horse put an end to the great city of Troy.

-posted by Maximilian & Devin