Typhoeus
Britishnoun
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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
As Typhoeus moves, the earth shakes; as he breathes, smoke and ashes come up from Aetna.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
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
He was one of the Titans who warred against Jupiter like Typhoeus, Briareus, and others.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
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