Chimera

Chimera in Wikipedia

The Chimera or Chimaera (Greek: Χίμαιρα, Khimaira, from χίμαρος, khimaros, "he-goat", and χεῖμα, "winter, tempest") was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing female creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of multiple animals: upon the body of a male lion with a tail that ended in a snake's head, the head of a...

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Chimaera in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Xi/maira), a fire-breathing monster, which, according to the Homeric poems, was of divine origin. She was brought up by Amisodarus, king of Caria, and afterwards made great havoc in all the country around and among men. The fore part of her body was that of a lion, and the hind part that of a dragon, while the middle was that of a goat. (Hom...

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