Chimaera

This monster is a legendary beast taking its shape from both a goat and a lion. Some stories say that it had the hindquarters of a snake and the head of a lion on the body of a goat. Others claimed that it had two heads, one goat and one lion, and it breathed fire. This being was brought up by Amisodares, the king of Caria at Patera. The king of Lycia, Iobates, commanded Bellerophon to kill it since the monster made many raids on his kingdom; with the help of Pegasus, the winged horse, Bellerophon succeeded. The Chimaera often appears in architecture, although the monster is usually greatly changed from the form known to classical mythology.