List of Greek Mythological Creatures - Mythical Monsters

Mythical Monsters

Greek myth includes many monstrous beings:

• Centaurs, a race of half-man, half-horse beings. Usually sons of Cronus.
  • Asbolus
  • Chariclo, wife of the centaur Chiron
  • Chiron, the eldest and wisest of the Centaurs. The ancient Trainer of Heroes.
  • Eurytion
• Cerberus, the three-headed, giant hound that guarded the gates of Hades
• Charybdis, a sea monster whose inhalations formed a deadly whirlpool
• Chimera, a three-headed monster, with the foreparts of a lion, the middle-parts of a goat and goat's head rising from its back, and a serpent-headed tail. Slain by Bellerophon
• Empousa, a vampiric demon with a leg of bronze and a hoofed foot of a donkey; she seduced men in order to feed on their flesh and blood
• Gorgons, cursed sisters with serpents for hair
  • Medusa, the sister capable of turning men to stone with her gaze, cursed by Aphrodite for being with Posideon in her temple.
  • Stheno, the most murderous of the sisters
  • Euryale sister most known for her death-bellowing screams
• Graeae, three old women with one tooth and one eye among them
  • Deino
  • Enyo
  • Pemphredo
• Harpies, winged monsters with the bodies of birds and the heads and torsos of women
• Hippalectryon, a creature with the fore-parts of a rooster and the body of a horse
• Hippocampi, sea creatures with the fore-parts of horses and the tails of fish
• Ichthyocentaurs, a pair of marine centaurs with the upper bodies of men, the lower fronts of horses, and the tails of fish
• Ipotane, a race of half-horse, half-humans
• Kobaloi, a species of mischievous creatures, fond of tricking or frightening humans
• Manticore, a monster with the head and body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion and wings of a bat.
• Minotaur, a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man; slain multiple times.
• Mormo, a vampiric creature who bit bad children
• Lamia, a vampiric demon which preyed on children
• Hydra, a many-headed, water-dwelling, serpent-like creature that guarded an Underworld entrance beneath Lake Lerna. It was destroyed by Heracles, in his second Labour
• Furies, the three goddesses of pain. Worked for Hades in the Underworld to punish evil souls. Created from the blood of Uranus.
• Nessus, a ferryman at the river Euenus
• Ophiotaurus, a creature part bull and part serpent
• Orthrus, a two-headed, serpent-tailed dog, slain by Heracles
• Panes, a tribe of nature-spirits which had the heads and torsos of men, the legs and tails of goats, goatish faces and goat-horns
• Pholus
• Satyrs and Satyresses, companions of Pan and Dionysus which had human upper bodies, and horns of a goat
• Scylla - dwelt on a cliff on the side of a narrow strait where, on the other side, Charybdis lived. Scylla would reach down with one of her many heads and pluck sailors of the decks of the ships they were voyaging in. Scylla was loved by Posideon, but Circe also loved him. Filled with jealousy, she turned Scylla into a monster with four eyes and six long necks, that had grisly heads, three rows of sharp teeth, 12 tentacle like legs, a cats tail, and six dog heads lining her waist.
• Sileni, a race of elderly Satyrs
• Sirens, three winged bird-women whose irresistible song lured sailors to their deaths
• Sphinx, a creature with the body of a lion and the head of a woman
• Taraxippi, ghosts that frightened horses
• Telekhines, skilled metal-workers with the heads of dogs and flippers of seals in place of hands