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Fire From the Rocks, Part 3

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Hesiod's Chimera

The oldest records of the monster can be found in the sixth book of homer's iliad. The beast here is described as a great fire breathing she goat with a lion's head and the tail of a serpent. I think i lik ya like lion, snake, eagle or something. Yes, some depictions, it has wings. But i do not really ass ate the chimera with a goat at all.

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