Typhoeus (Typhon). According to Hesiod [Theog. 869], the youngest son of Gaea by Tartarus; a giant of enormous strength, with one hundred snake-heads, eyes darting fire, and various voices, which sometimes sounded like the voice of the gods, some­times like the lowing of a bull or the roar­ing of a lion, or like the howl of a dog, and sometimes like a shrill whistle. He was the symbol of the fire and smoke in the interior of the earth, and of their destructive forces. Hence he was also the father of devastating hurricanes. By Echidna he was the father of the dogs Orthos and Cerbgras, and the Lernsean hydra [the Chimaera, the lion of Nemea, the eagle of Prometheus, and the dragon of the Hesperides], He contended with Zeus for the throne of the lower world, but after some severe fighting was hurled to the ground by lightning, and thrown into Tartarus.

- Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by Oskar Seyffert (1894)