Here's a generic monster for you.
Now, that really is odd! Goaty horns, wings (that give it the look of a
rhyton), and presumably there is a concept of something else at the rear end that we don't see.
And an actual Echidna, the mother of many of the other nasties. Harpies too, thanks to Steve .. this is a very fruitful
thread for me!
Incidentally, although words like "
hippocamp" are said to end in the Greek for "monster," the Pocket
Oxford Classical Greek Dictionary is not helpful. Kampos isn't in it, and the nearest words seem to relate to being curved or bent. Does this really mean a warped creature, perhaps? Or is that a modern interpretation of "bent"?
