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From [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]], she was a monster with legs made of snakes, and she had six heads and upper bodies. Her food? Humans, according to [[Elizabeth Vandiver]], [[Classics]] [[scholarship|scholar]] and authority on [[Greek mythology]] and [[Greek tragedy]] including the ''[[Iliad]]'', ''[[Odyssey]]'', ''[[Aeneid]]'', [[Homer]], and [[Virgil]]. This definition is based on her course ''Classical Mythology'' from [[The Teaching Company]].
From [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]], a female sea monster, six-headed with legs made of snakes, who devoured sailors along one side of a narrow sea passage. Alternatively, a dangerous rock in the same location on which mariners tended to wreck their ships.

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From Greek mythology, a female sea monster, six-headed with legs made of snakes, who devoured sailors along one side of a narrow sea passage. Alternatively, a dangerous rock in the same location on which mariners tended to wreck their ships.

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