Editing Echidna (mythology) (section)

===List of principal offspring===
The following table lists the principal offspring of Echidna as given by Hesiod, Apollodorus or Hyginus.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|+ Offspring of Echidna
|-
! Offspring
! colspan="2" | [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony|Th]].''
! colspan="2" | [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]]
! colspan="2" | [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]]
! colspan="2" | Other sources
|-
| [[Orthrus]]
|✓✓
|<small>[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.27.xml 309]</small>
|✓✓
|<small>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.10 2.5.10]</small>
|
|
|??&nbsp;{{efn|group=offspring|name=j|text=Quintus Smyrnaeus has Echidna and Typhon as Cerberus' parents with Orthrus as his brother.}}
|<small>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus|Quin. Smyr.]] [https://archive.org/stream/falloftroy00quin#page/272/mode/2up 6.249&ndash;262]</small>
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Cerberus]]
| rowspan="2" |✓✓
| rowspan="2" | <small>[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.27.xml 310 ff.]</small>
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |✓✓
| rowspan="2" |<small>''Fab.'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html#Preface Pref.], [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html#151 151]</small>
|✓✓
|<small>[[Acusilaus|Acus.]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA11 fr. 13]; [[Quintus Smyrnaeus|Quin. Smyr.]] [https://archive.org/stream/falloftroy00quin#page/272/mode/2up ''loc. cit.'']</small>
|-
|✓?
|<small>[[Bacchylides|Bac.]] Ode [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0064%3Abook%3DEp%3Apoem%3D5 5.62], [[Sophocles|Soph.]] ''[[Women of Trachis|Trach.]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0196%3Acard%3D1076 1097&ndash;1099],  [[Callimachus|Call.]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/callimachus-fragments_uncertain_location/1973/pb_LCL421.259.xml?result=2&rskey=li3r52 fr. 515], [[Ovid]] ''[[Metamorphoses|Met.]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028:book=4:card=481&highlight=Echidna 4.500&ndash;501], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028:book=7:card=404&highlight=Cerberian 7.406&ndash;409]</small>
|-
| [[Lernaean Hydra]]
|✓✓
|<small>[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.29.xml 313 ff.]</small>
|
|
|✓✓
|<small>''Fab.'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html#Preface Pref.],  [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html#30 30], [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html#151 151]</small>
|
|
|-
| [[Chimera (mythology)|Chimera]]
|??&nbsp;{{efn|group=offspring|name=a|text=It is unclear whom Hesiod meant as the mother of the Chimera: Echidna, the Hydra, or Ceto. See Clay, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2etBN0w0NGUC&pg=PA159 p. 159, with n. 34];  Gantz, p. 22.}}
|<small>[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.29.xml 319 ff.]</small>
|✓✓&nbsp;{{efn|group=offspring|name=e|text=Apollodorus, cites Hesiod as his source for the Chimera being the offspring of Typhon and Echidna.}}
|<small>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.3.1 2.3.1]</small>
|✓✓
|<small>''Fab.'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html#Preface Pref.], [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html#151 151]</small>
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Sphinx]]
| rowspan="2" |?&nbsp;{{efn|group=offspring|name=b|text=Hesiod gives the Sphinx and the Nemean lion as the offspring of Echidna's son Orthrus and an ambiguous "she", in line [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.29.xml 326] of the ''Theogony'', read variously as the Chimera, Echidna herself, or even Ceto. See Clay, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2etBN0w0NGUC&pg=PA159 p. 159, with n. 34]; Most 2018a, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.29.xml p. 29 n. 20];  Gantz, p. 23; Caldwell, p. 47 lines 326; West 1966, p. 356 line 326 '''ἡ δ' ἄρα'''.}}
| rowspan="2" |<small>[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.29.xml 326 ff.]</small>
| rowspan="2" |✓✓
| rowspan="2" |<small>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.5.8 3.5.8]</small>
| rowspan="2" |✓✓
| rowspan="2" |<small>''Fab.'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html#Preface Pref.], [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html#151 151]</small>
|✓✓
|<small>[[Lasus of Hermione|Lasus]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/lasus-fragments/1991/pb_LCL476.311.xml fr. 706A]</small>
|-
|✓?
|<small>[[Euripides|Eur.]] ''[[The Phoenician Women]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0118%3Acard%3D1019 1019&ndash;1025]</small>
|-
| [[Nemean lion|Nemean Lion]]
|?&nbsp;{{efn|group=offspring|name=b}}
|<small>[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.29.xml 326 ff.]</small>
|?✓
|<small>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.1 2.5.1]</small>
| {{efn|group=offspring|name=g |text=Hyginus says that [[Luna (goddess)|Luna]] ("Moon") raised the Nemean Lion in a two-mouthed cave.}}
|<small>''Fab.'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html#30 30]</small>
|
|
|-
| [[Caucasian Eagle]]
|
|
|✓✓
|<small>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.11 2.5.11]</small>
| {{efn|group=offspring|name=h |text=Hyginus gives three possible parentages for the Caucasian Eagle: Typhon and Echidna, Terra and Tartarus, or that it was fashioned by Vulcan and given life by Jove.}}
|<small>''[[Poeticon astronomicon|Ast.]]'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusAstronomica.html#15 2.15].</small>
|✓✓
|<small>[[Acusilaus|Acus.]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA11 fr. 13]; [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pher.]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA278 fr. 7]</small>
|-
| [[Ladon (mythology)|Ladon]]
| {{efn|group=offspring|name=c |text=Hesiod (though he does not name it Ladon) gives the dragon's parents as Ceto and Phorcys.}}
|<small>[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.29.xml 333 ff.]</small>
|✓✓
|<small>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.11 2.5.11]</small>
|✓✓
|<small>''Fab.'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html#Preface Pref.], [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html#151 151]</small>
|✓✓
|<small>[[Pherecydes of Athens|Pher.]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA286 fr. 16b]; [[John Tzetzes|Tzet.]] ''[[Chiliades]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/TzetzesCHILIADES/Chiliades#page/n31/mode/1up 2.36.360]</small>
|-
| [[Crommyonian Sow]]
|
|
|✓✓
|<small>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Epitome:book=E:chapter=1 E1.1]</small>
|
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|-
| "Gorgon" (mother of [[Medusa]])
|{{efn|group=offspring|name=d}}
|<small>[https://www.loebclassics.com/view/hesiod-theogony/2018/pb_LCL057.25.xml 270 ff.]</small>
|{{efn|group=offspring|name=d|text=Hesiod and Apollodorus have the three Gorgons, [[Stheno]], [[Euryale (Gorgon)|Euryale]] and Medusa as the daughters of Ceto and Phorcys}}
|<small>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.2.6 1.2.6]</small>
|✓✓&nbsp;{{efn|group=offspring|name=i |text=For Hyginus, Gorgon was the mother of [[Medusa]].}}
|<small>''Fab.'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html#Preface Pref.], [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html#151 151]</small>
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|-
| [[Colchian dragon]]
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|
|
|
|✓✓
|<small>''Fab.'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html#Preface Pref.], [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html#151 151]</small>
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|-
| [[Scylla]]
|
|
| {{efn|group=offspring|name=f|text=Apollodorus has [[Crataeis]] as the mother of Scylla, with Trienus ([[Triton (mythology)|Triton]]?) or Phorcus (a variant Phorcys) as father.}}
|<small>[http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.7.20 E7.20]</small>
|✓✓
|<small>''Fab.'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html#Preface Pref.], [http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae4.html#151 151]</small>
|
|<small>[[Virgil]], ''Ciris'' 67</small>
|-
|}
Legend:
:✓✓ = Echidna and Typhon given as parents
:✓? = Only Echidna given as parent
:?✓ = Only Typhon given as parent
:?? = Echidna and Typhon possibly meant as parents
:? = Echidna possibly meant as parent

Notes:
{{notelist|group=offspring}}