HEROIC BATTLES OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY - CHIMAERA THE DRAKON

There was a dreadful union

Between the giant immortal Typhon

And the black fearful eyed Echidne,

Half serpent, half woman

The terrifying result of this

Unnatural union was the Chimaera

A great beast strong and swift footed

Who snorted raging fire

The creature’s front

Was that of a lion with tooth claw and nail

The hindquarters and middle

Of a goat and a serpent for a tail

Her heads numbered three,

One of a Lion, a goat and a snake

A fire breathing powerful drakon

She left death in her wake

The Drakon Chimaera was in love

With Orthrus her own brother

And spawned the deadly Sphinx

And the Nemean Lion together

She ravaged the herds

And despoiled the Lycian countryside

The bones of her victims

Lay strewn across the mountainside

The creature allegedly reared

By Ambassados plagued Lycia

And many a heroic figure

Tried to rid that land of Chimaera

Then King Iobates sent

The gallant Corinthian hero Bellerophon

Mounted upon winged Pegasus

To do battle with the Drakon

He rained arrows down

With the help of the goddess Athena

And with his lead tipped lance

Bellerophon killed Chimera