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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHIMAERA

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 164 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHIMAERA , in Greek mythology, a fire-breathing female
monster
  resembling a lion in the fore
part
 , a goat in the middle, and a
dragon
  behind (Iliad, vi. 179), with three heads corresponding. She devastated
Caria
  and
Lycia
  until she was finally slain by
Bellerophon
  (see H. A. Fischer,
Bellerophon
 , 1851). The origin of the myth was the volcanic nature of the soil of
Lycia
  (Pliny, Nat. Hist. ii. 1 io; Servius on Aeneid, vi 288), where works have been found containing representations of the Chimaera in the simple form of a lion. In modern art the Chimaera is usually represented as a lion, with a goat's head in the middle of the back, as in the bronze Chimaera of Arezzo (5th century). The word is now used generally to denote a fantastic
idea
  or fiction of the
imagination
 .


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