Typhoeus
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Klimt painted it onto the walls in 1902 for the Secession’s 14th exhibition, depicting floating genies, a knight in shining armor, a giant Typhoeus monster of Greek myth and a choir of angels.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2015
As his subject, Palmer turned to Typhoeus typhoeus, commonly known as the minotaur beetle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Th' infernal waters trembled at thy sight; Thee, god, no face of danger could affright; Not huge Typhoeus, nor th' unnumber'd snake, Increas'd with hissing heads, in Lerna's lake.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
From the first has come forth a strength that led and still leads to fearful revolution: for in all socialistic upheavals it is ever Rousseau's man who is the Typhoeus under the Etna.
From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
An allusion to the myth of the giant Typhoeus who, according to one version, was created by Hera alone, in anger at the birth of Pallas from the head of Zeus.
From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Frederick S. Boas
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