Editing Typhon (section)

====Nonnus's ''Dionysiaca''====
[[File:002MA_Friso.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|The [[Three-Bodied Daemon (ACMA 35)|three-bodied daemon]], perhaps Typhon. [[Acropolis Museum]], [[Greece]].]]

The longest and most involved version of the battle appears in [[Nonnus]]'s ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' (late 4th or early 5th century AD).<ref>Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA74 pp. 74–75]; Lane Fox, [https://books.google.com/books?id=NZFM-TUwFxgC&pg=PA286 pp. 286–288]; Ogden 2013a, [https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ2pAK9luwkC&pg=PA74, pp. 74– 75].</ref> Zeus hides his thunderbolts in a cave, so that he might seduce the maiden [[Pluto (mother of Tantalus)|Pluto]], and so produce [[Tantalus]]. But smoke rising from the thunderbolts, enables Typhon, under the guidance of Gaia, to locate Zeus's weapons, steal them, and hide them in another cave.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/n69/mode/2up 1.145–164 (I pp. 12–15)].</ref> Immediately Typhon extends "his clambering hands into the upper air" and begins a long and concerted attack upon the heavens.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/15/mode/2up 1.164–257 (I pp. 14–21)].</ref> Then "leaving the air" he turns his attack upon the seas.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/20/mode/2up 1.258–293 (I pp. 20–25)].</ref> Finally Typhon attempts to wield Zeus' thunderbolts, but they "felt the hands of a novice, and all their manly blaze was unmanned."<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/24/mode/2up 1.294–320 (I pp. 24–27)].</ref>

Now Zeus' sinews had somehow – Nonnus does not say how or when — fallen to the ground during their battle, and Typhon had taken them also.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/40/mode/2up 1.510–512 (I pp. 40–41)]. Nonnus' account regarding the sinews is vague and not altogether sensible since as yet Zeus and Typhon have not met, see Fontenrose, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wqeVv09Y6hIC&pg=PA75 p. 75 n. 11] and Rose's note to [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/40/mode/2up 510 pp. 40–41 n. ''b''].</ref> But Zeus devises a plan with [[Cadmus]] and [[Pan (god)|Pan]] to beguile Typhon.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/28/mode/2up 1.363–407 (I pp. 28–33)].</ref> Cadmus, disguised as a shepherd, enchants Typhon by playing the panpipes, and Typhon entrusting the thunderbolts to Gaia, sets out to find the source of the music he hears.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/32/mode/2up 1.409–426 (I pp. 32–35)].</ref> Finding Cadmus, he challenges him to a contest, offering Cadmus any goddess as wife, excepting Hera whom Typhon has reserved for himself.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/34/mode/2up 1.427–480 (I pp. 34–37)]. For Typhon's plans to marry Hera see also [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/68/mode/2up 2.316–333 (I pp. 68–69)], [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/86/mode/2up 1.581–586 (I pp. 86–87)].</ref> Cadmus then tells Typhon that, if he liked the "little tune" of his pipes, then he would love the music of his lyre – if only it could be strung with Zeus' sinews.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/38/mode/2up 1.481–481 (I pp. 38–39)].</ref> So Typhon retrieves the sinews and gives them to Cadmus, who hides them in another cave, and again begins to play his bewitching pipes, so that "Typhoeus yielded his whole soul to Cadmos for the melody to charm".<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/38/mode/2up 1.507–534 (I pp. 38–41)].</ref>

With Typhon distracted, Zeus takes back his thunderbolts. Cadmus stops playing, and Typhon, released from his spell, rushes back to his cave to discover the thunderbolts gone. Incensed Typhon unleashes devastation upon the world: animals are devoured, (Typhon's many animal heads each eat animals of its own kind), rivers turned to dust, seas made dry land, and the land "laid waste".<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/44/mode/2up 2.1–93 (I pp. 44–51)].</ref>

The day ends with Typhon yet unchallenged, and while the other gods "moved about the cloudless Nile",  Zeus waits through the night for the coming dawn.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/56/mode/2up 2.163–169 (I pp. 56–57)].</ref> Victory "reproaches" Zeus, urging him to "stand up as champion of your own children!"<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/60/mode/2up 2.205–236 (I pp. 60–63)].</ref> Dawn comes and Typhon roars out a challenge to Zeus.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/62/mode/2up 2.244–355 (I pp. 62–71)].</ref> And a cataclysmic battle for "the sceptre and throne of Zeus" is joined. Typhon piles up mountains as battlements and with his "legions of arms innumerable", showers volley after volley of trees and rocks at Zeus, but all are destroyed, or blown aside, or dodged, or thrown back at Typhon. Typhon throws torrents of water at Zeus' thunderbolts to quench them, but Zeus is able to cut off some of Typhon's hands with "frozen volleys of air as by a knife", and hurling thunderbolts is able to burn more of Typhon's "endless hands", and cut off some of his "countless heads". Typhon is attacked by the four winds, and "frozen volleys of jagged hailstones."<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/72/mode/2up 2.356–539 (I pp. 72–85)].</ref> Gaia tries to aid her burnt and frozen son.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/84/mode/2up 2.540–552 (I pp. 84–85)].</ref> Finally Typhon falls, and Zeus shouts out a long stream of mocking taunts, telling Typhon that he is to be buried under Sicily's hills, with a [[cenotaph]] over him which will read "This is the barrow of Typhoeus, son of Earth, who once lashed the sky with stones, and the fire of heaven burnt him up".<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/dionysiaca01nonnuoft#page/84/mode/2up 2.553–630 (I pp. 84–91)].</ref>