Source 3 – Typhoeus

When Zeus drove the Titans from the sky, huge Earth gave birth to her last-born child, Typhoeus, from the lover of Tartarus, through golden Aphrodite. The powerful god’s hands were strong and well able to fulfil his tasks and his feet were untiring.

From his shoulders grew one hundred snaky heads, those of a terrible serpent, with dusky, licking tongues. Fire flashed from the hooded eyes in these awesome heads.

There were voices which issued from all those dreadful heads, which emitted all manner of sounds, quite undescribable. Sometimes they produced sounds which the gods could understand, but at other times the bellow of a bull, proud and untamed, or the roar of a lion, which has no pity in its heart. Or it would be the sound of a pack of dogs, or a hissing which echoed through the high mountains.

(Zeus realised what was happening and thundered).

The whole earth quivered, and the sea and sky too. Under the immortals’ attack, rolling waves seethed round and about the shorelines and there were tremours which could not be stopped. Hades, Lord of the Dead, below, trembled at the dreadful noise of the conflict, and so too did the Titans, Cronus and his fellows, who are underneath Tartarus.

Zeus’ anger had now reached its peak. He seized his weapons, the thunder and lightning and the glowing thunderbolt. He leapt from Olympus and struck. He scorched all the unspeakable heads of the dread monster and when he had lashed him and defeated him with his blows, he flung him down wounded and the broad earth groaned. Flames from the thunder-blasted lord poured from the dark, rocky crevices of the mountain where he was hit … The earth melted and Zeus, with heartfelt anger, threw him into Tartarus.

Hesiod, Theogony, lines 820-35, 847-60, 867-70