Orthrus

Those are pretty common.

And there's a tragedy, which is, like, Orthrus and Eurydice.

And so that's where, you know, a lot of modern stuff comes from.

Like, it's an epic, a comedy, or a tragedy.

She was the mother of Chimera, who breathed raging fire.

a creature fearful great swift-footed and strong who had three heads one of a grim-eyed lion another of a goat and another of a snake a fierce dragon in her fore part she was a lion in her hinder part a dragon and in her middle a goat breathing forth a fearful blast of blazing fire her did pegasus and noble bellerophon slay But Echidna was subject in love to Orthus, and brought forth the deadly sphinx, which destroyed the Cadmians, and the Nemean lion, which Hera, the good wife of Zeus, brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea, a plague to men.

There he preyed upon the tribes of her own people and had power over Traetus of Nemea and Apasus.

Yet the strength of stout Heracles overcame him.

Now the gods who were the children of Cronus and Rhea went up into the mountain Olympus, and there they built their shining palaces.

But the Titan gods who were born of heaven and earth went up to the mountain Orthrus, and there they had their thrones.

Between the Olympians and the Titan gods of Orthrus a war began.

Neither side might prevail against the other.

But now Zeus, grown up to be a youth, thought of how he might help the Olympians to overthrow the Titan gods.

Afterward, he was to go amongst the dread women, the Amazons, daughters of Ares, the god of war, and take them for their queen, Hippolyte, the girdle that Ares had given her.

Then he was to go to Crete and take from the keeping of King Minos the beautiful bull that Poseidon had given him.

Afterward, he was to go to the island of Erytheia and take away from Geryoneus the monster that had three bodies instead of one, the herd of red cattle that the two-headed hound Orthrus kept guard over.

But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean, and begot three-headed Geryones.

Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erytheia by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious Ocean.

And in a hollow cave she bore another monster, irresistible, in no wise like either to mortal men or to the undying gods, even the goddess fierce Echidna, who is half a nymph with glancing eyes and fair cheeks, and half again a huge snake, great and awful, with speckled skin, eating raw flesh beneath the secret parts of the holy earth.

And there she has a cave, deep down under a hollow rock, far from the deathless gods and mortal men.

There, then, did the gods appoint her a glorious house to dwell in; and she keeps guard in a rhema beneath the earth, grim Echidna, a nymph who dies not nor grows old all her days.

Men say that Typhoeon the terrible, outrageous, and lawless, was joined in love to her, the maid with glancing eyes; so she conceived and brought forth fierce offspring.

First she bore Orthus the hound of Geryones; and then again she bore a second, a monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, Cerberus who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound of Hades, fifty-headed, relentless, and strong.

And again she bore a third, the evil-minded Hydra of Lerna, whom the goddess white-armed Hera nourished, being angry beyond measure with mighty Heracles.

Now the gods who were the children of Cronus and Rhea went up into the mountain Olympus, and there they built their shining palaces.

But the Titan gods who were born of heaven and earth went up to the mountain Orthrus, and there they had their thrones.

Between the Olympians and the Titan gods of Orthrus a war began.

Neither side might prevail against the other.

But now Zeus, grown up to be a youth, thought of how he might help the Olympians to overthrow the Titan gods.

edgar ice burroughs the moon maid chicago nineteen twenty six mcclurg frontispiece fantastic adventure an expedition to mars is forced to make a landing on the moon by a hostile member of its crew Entering one of the vast craters which leads to a land within the shell of the moon, the party joins a civilized race of humans.

The outcast Orthus encounters beast-like creatures, whom he provides with a suitable weapon for overwhelming the moon.

The commander of the expedition, Julian, escapes to earth with his moon bride.

Years later, Orthus and his moon creatures overwhelm the earth.

Four generations pass, and a Julian leads the first revolt against harsh moon rule dictated by Orthos' descendants.

Centuries later, Earthmen have degenerated to nomadic, Indian-like tribes.