Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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The myth of the Strix: the ominous Greco-Roman night-bird that fed on infants' blood, blurring into the witch who became it — a key ancestor of the
The myth of Python: the colossal earth-serpent child of Gaia who guarded the Delphic oracle until Apollo slew it and claimed the sacred chasm, giving
The myth of Orthrus: the two-headed hound, brother of Cerberus and child of Typhon and Echidna, who guarded Geryon's red cattle and was slain by Heracles
The myth of Lamia: the beautiful queen loved by Zeus whose children Hera destroyed, who became a serpentine, sleepless monster that devoured other
The myth of Empusa: the shape-shifting demon of Hecate who took the form of a beautiful woman to seduce and devour young men, driven off only by insults —
The myth of Ladon: the immortal hundred-headed dragon that never slept, guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides, slain in Heracles's eleventh Labour
The myth of Talos: the giant bronze automaton forged by Hephaestus to guard Crete, animated by a single vein of ichor and defeated by the sorceress Medea
The myth of Argus Panoptes: the giant covered in a hundred eyes who never fully slept, set by Hera to guard Io, lulled to sleep and slain by Hermes — his
The myth of Pegasus: the white winged horse born from Medusa's blood, tamed by Bellerophon to slay the Chimera, whose hoof struck springs of poetic
The myth of the Greek Sphinx: the woman-lion-eagle who terrorised Thebes with her deadly riddle until Oedipus answered "Man," and she destroyed herself —
