The Chimera has a lion's head in the fore part, a goat's body in the midst, and a serpent's tail in the hinder section. This creature breathed fire from its middle head as described by Homer.
Hesiod states that Echidna was the mother while Typhon served as the father of this hybrid offspring. Apollodorus and Hyginus confirm that the child of Echidna and Typhon is the Chimera.
Bellerophon mounted Pegasus who sprang from the blood of Medusa to soar above the beast. The winged horse shot down the Chimera from above to slay the monster for King Iobates.
Proto-Corinthian pottery painters fixed the Corinthian type in the 670s BC with some of the earliest identifiable mythological scenes. Later coins struck at Sicyon near Corinth bear the chimera-motif clearly during subsequent centuries.
These vents lie approximately three kilometers north of Çıralí near ancient Olympos on the Lycian Way in southwest Turkey. Called Yanartaş or flaming rock, the area contains about two dozen openings grouped into two patches on the hillside.