Greek Mythical Creatures
1.Centaur
Centaur are half-human, half-horse creatures in Greek Mythology.
2.Cyclopes
Cyclopes are gigantic one-eye monsters.
3.Pegasus
Pegasus are flying horses in Greek Mythology
4.Medusa
Medusa is a monster. An ugly woman with snakes instead of hair. Anyone who looked into her eyes was immediately turned to stone.
5.Cerberus
Cerberus are three-headed dog that guards the Underworld.
6.Phoenix
Phoenix is a bird that can live for a long time and also can regenerate/reborn from the ashes of it’s predecessor.
7.Giants
Giants are a race of great strength, not for their sizes though.
8.Minotaurs
Minotaur is a fabulous monster that had the body of a man and the head of a bull.
9.Arion
An immortal horse in Greek Mythology.
10.Sengifkile (Not I’m Here)
Nandipha Mntambo created this piece and its now held in the Brooklyn Museum. She made it so it can reflect on the binaries of attraction/repulsion, male/female, animal/human, myth/reality,etc.
11.Europa
This piece represents Europe and how it reminds Nandipha Mntambo about confronting parts of herself that she don’t like, or the human and animal in herself.
12.Ceryneian Hind
Ceryneian Hind was a huge female deer which lived in the region of Keryneia.
13.Chimera
Chimera was a hybrid monster in Greek Mythology.
14.Laelaps
Laelaps is a dog in Greek Mythology that always caught what he hunted.
15.Python
Python is a earth-dragon in Greek Mythology.
16.Teumessian Fox
An animal in Greek mythology that can always escape its hunter. The opposite of Laelaps.
17.Erymanthian Boar
Erymanthian Boar is a fearsome animal in Greek Mythology.
18.Hydra
Hydra is a monster in Greek Mythology. It had many heads and every time someone would cut one head, two more heads would grow out.
19.Delphyne
Delphyne is a female dragon in Greek Mythology.
20.Sirens
Sirens are beautiful but dangerous creatures that lures the sailor with their beautiful voices. Not only killing the sailors but sinking the ships as well.
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