Typhon / Typhoeus

In TheogonyHesiod’s TheogonyGreek poem on divine generations and Zeus’s kingship; its surviving form does not identify all of Hesiod’s sources.Glossary · Click to read the explanation 820–869 ZeusZeusZeus is the sky god and leading deity in many Greek traditions. In the Iliad he presides over divine gatherings while others can still speak and object.Glossary · Click to read the explanation strikes Typhoeus with his thunderbolts and hurls him into TartarusTartarusDeep abyss in Greek poetic imagination, named by Zeus as a place of punishment in the Iliad.Glossary · Click to read the explanation; these lines do not mention the loss of Zeus's sinews. The later Greek Bibliotheca tells of their removal and retrieval by HermesHermesGreek god acting as a messenger in the Odyssey passages examined here.Glossary · Click to read the explanation and Aegipan. The textual and chronological distinction matters when comparing IlluyankaIlluyankaThe serpent opposed by the storm god in two Hittite narratives preserved in CTH 321.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. ^[2][6]