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CHIMAERA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 164 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHIMAERA , in See also:

Greek See also:mythology, a See also:fire-breathing See also:female See also:monster resembling a See also:lion in the fore See also:part, a See also:goat in the See also:middle, and a See also:dragon behind (Iliad, vi. 179), with three heads corresponding. She devastated See also:Caria and See also:Lycia until she was finally slain by See also:Bellerophon (see H. A. See also:Fischer, Bellerophon, 1851). The origin of the myth was the volcanic nature of the See also:soil of Lycia (See also:Pliny, Nat. Hist. ii. 1 io; Servius on Aeneid, vi 288), where See also:works have been found containing representations of the Chimaera in the See also:simple See also:form of a lion. In See also:modern See also:art the Chimaera is usually represented as a lion, with a goat's See also:head in the middle of the back, as in the See also:bronze Chimaera of See also:Arezzo (5th See also:century). The word is now used generally to denote a fantastic See also:idea or fiction of the See also:imagination.

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