Re: [pic] what is it?

Dave MacPheat wrote:
> 
 spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) wrote:
 
 >>> what creature is this?
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> 
> It looks like it may be a chimera. From Encarta '96 ...
> 
> "Chimera, in Greek mythology, a fire-breathing monster that
> had the head of a lion, the body of a she-goat, and the
> tail of a dragon. It terrorized Lycia, a region in Asia Minor,
> but was finally killed by the Greek hero Bellerophon."

Hm, this sounds OK so far but after looking on some other pics
the stationary you took as a model must be something like
a 'modern' interpretation. ;) (At least if this IS meant to
be a chimere. I'm not so sure.)

I found an interesting page with some ancient pics of
chimeres :

http://lcfs.chim.unifi.it/solid/bardi/chimera/origins.html


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