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41 Cards in this Set
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Antaeus |
Famous for wrestling. |
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Cacus |
A fire-breathing giant. |
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Crab |
aka Karkinos/Carcinus; a giant crab. |
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Cyclopes |
Three immortal giants, each with one eye in the center of his forehead. |
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Giants (of the Gigantomachy) |
Mainly human shape BUT had serpents' tails attached to their legs or feet. NOT the hundred-armed giants |
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Laestrygonians |
Cannibals/man-eating giants |
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Minotaur |
Cretan monster with a bull's head and a man's body |
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Otus and Ephialtes |
Twin giants. Known as Aloiadae or Aloadae or "sons of Aloeus." |
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Talos |
A bronze giant. |
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Tityus |
An Euboean giant. |
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Typhon |
A monster with 100 burning snake heads. |
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Harpies |
Birdlike female monsters. |
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Sirens |
Bird women who lured sailors with their songs |
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Stymphalian birds |
Birds that infested Lake Stymphalus. |
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Argus |
A man with many eyes. |
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Cerberus |
The watchdog of Hades. |
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Geryon |
A three-headed man or had the body of three men from the waist down. |
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Hecatoncheires |
Three giants, each with 50 heads and 100 arms. |
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Orthus |
A two-headed dog. |
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Scylla |
A monster with a woman's head and six dogs for legs or six heads on long necks. |
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Bronze bulls of Aeetes of Colchis |
Fire-breathing bulls. |
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Cerynitian Hind |
A golden-horned deer. |
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Chimaera |
A fire-breathing Lycian monster with either three heads or the front parts of a lion, the middle of a goat, and a snake's tail or all of these at once. |
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Cretan Bull |
A bull sacred to Poseidon. |
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Crommyonian Sow/Phaea |
A wild pig. |
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Erymanthian Boar |
A giant boar that lived on Mount Erymanthus. |
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Man-eating mares of Diomedes |
Four mares that ate human flesh. |
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Nemean Lion |
A monstrous lion. |
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Nessus |
A centaur (half horse/half-man) |
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Pegasus |
A winged horse. |
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Sphinx |
A female monster who could fly. |
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Colchian dragon |
An ever-wakeful giant serpent. |
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Echidna |
A half-nymph, half-speckled snake (Heisod). Famous for her children |
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Hydra |
A multi-headed serpent; when one head was lopped off, two more grew in its place. |
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Ladon |
A 100-headed snake. |
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Python |
A monstrous snake/dragon.. |
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Charybdis |
A whirlpool on the western side of the northern entrance to the Strait of Messina |
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Furies/Erinyes |
Female spirits who punished offenders against blood kin. |
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Gorgons |
Three snaky-haired monsters. |
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Graeae |
Two (sometimes three) ancient hags. |
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Medusa |
The only mortal Gorgon. |
