Chimera2.0001_Claremont

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Ovid Met. 6.339, 9.647
Apollod. Lib. 1.9.3, 2.3.1

Claremont, Chris & Buscema, John. (Character Chimera first featured in) Wolverine Vol. 2 #97. 1996: Marvel Comics.

Also portrayed in numerous other comics, novels, television shows, and films based on the X-Men franchise.

Chimera is a mutant supervillain who can generate green dragon-headed ectoplasmic energy fields that she uses to attack her enemies. She also has low-level telekenetic abilities.

Slide by CB

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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