History NightmareFuel / ClassicalMythology

** Medusa, whose face was apparently so frightening that anyone who saw her died in shock (and turned into stone, according to some accounts).

** A man who chopped down one of Demeter's trees was infected with eternal hunger and eventually ate himself.

* The minotaur's young victims were imprisoned in the labyrinth and force to run for their lives until the beast catches and devours them or they drop dead of exhaustion, hunger and thirst. Its like the first teen slasher flick.

** So, your friends with Aphrodite, and she want to marry you, eldest son of Nereus, old man of the sea. That's good, right? Well, [[ParentalMarriageVeto Dad says no]]. You tell your girlfriend that, and even though it's not your fault, she turns you into a polyp.

** The same giant flirts with Artemis. He gets sent off to Tartarus to be forever eaten alive by eagles. This was not Prometheus,
just some CasanovaWannabe.

* Ephilatus and Otus tried invading Olympus. They eternally drown in the center of a waterfall, tied by snakes to a pillar, while Fate watches them as an owl. [[Understatement Ouch.]]

** Ixion - bound to an ever spinning wheel.

** Athena transforming Arachne into a spider for [[DispropoetionateRetribution being better at her in weaving]].
** That guy Jason and the Argonauts helped because he pissed off Zeus so he was punished by being attacked by Harpies every time he tried to eat.

** Athena transforming Arachne into a spider.

* Procrustes, who drew and quartered his victims... during their sleep!

* Athena's birth. The clanging produced when Metis forged Athena's armor gave Zeus a massive headache, and he was willing to do anything to stop the headache...ANYTHING, including go to one of his least favorite people in the world, Hephaestus, and have him ''split his skull wide open''. Then, Athena burst out of Zeus' ''bleeding skull'', [[BornAnAdult fully grown and armored]], and letting out a battle cry.

*** The whole reason Tantalus ended up the way he did; he sought to humiliate the Gods by revealing to the world that they're NotSoOmniscientAfterAll. How? By ''[[OffingTheOffspring killing his own son, Pelop]]'' and boiling his flesh in [[ImAHumanitarian the soup he planned on feeding to the Gods.]] The Gods all immediately figured it out [[MoralEventHorizon what he did]] (except Demeter, who was too busy mourning the loss of Persephone) and are [[EveryoneHasStandards absolutely horrified]]. Zeus pretty much incinerates Tantalus on the spot and then demands [[{{Seers}} the Fates]] to bring Pelop back to life to [[TheAtoner make up for what Tantalus did.]] And what's worse, they couldn't restore his whole body; Demeter had absentmindedly eaten one of his shoulder blades and Hephaestus had to make him a new one.

* Monsters like the Hydra (a serpent with nine heads, that can [[HealingFactor continually regenerate when injured]]), the Chimera (a hideous amalgamation of a lion, a goat and a dragon), Cerberus (a vicious three-headed dog that in some myths had a back covered in living serpents), Orthrus (Cerberus's two-headed, serpent-tailed little brother), and various other creatures definitely count. Perhaps the worst is Typhon -- father of the above along with the Mother of All Monsters, Echidna -- Typhon is described by some writers as being as tall as the sky itself, and having a hundred dragon-like heads, all of which screamed and breathed fire. It's not hard to see why almost all the gods had a collective {{Brown Note}} when he appeared, and fled Greece, leaving Zeus to face the creature by himself.
** In some versions, Typhon had venom seeping ''[[EyeScream out of his eyes]]''.

* Medusa, whose face was apparently so frightening that anyone who saw her died in shock (and turned into stone, according to some accounts).

* Prometheus' fate of being chained to a rock and having an eagle peck out his liver each day. He endured it for hundreds of years before being released.

* Monsters like the Hydra (a serpent with nine heads, that can [[HealingFactor continually regenerate when injured]]), the Chimera (a hideous amalgamation of a lion, a goat and a dragon), Cerberus (a vicious three-headed dog that in some myths had a back covered in living serpents), Orthrus (Cerberus's two-headed, serpent-tailed little brother), and various other creatures definitely count. Perhaps the worst is Typhon -- father of the above along with the Mother of All Monsters, Echidna -- Typhn is described by some writers as being as tall as the sky itself, and having a hundred dragon-like heads, all of which screamed and breathed fire. It's not hard to see why almost all the gods had a collective {{Brown Note}} when he appeared, and fled Greece, leaving Zeus to face the creature by himself.

* The fate of the few mortals sent to Tartarus

** On the other hand, all three had it coming:
*** Ixion was invited to Olympus on behalf of Zeus, who was doing so to express that he wanted to pardon Ixion for murdering Ixion's father-in-law, and [[SacredHospitality proceeded to make an absolute jerk of himself]], including casting eyes at Hera throughout his stay (one telling of the tale has it he actually started performing oral sex on Hera, ''while they were at the dinner table''). Zeus, wary of his intentions, created a duplicate of Hera from some clouds, and Ixion promptly raped the false-Hera, fathering the first Centaurs.
*** Tantalus butchered and cooked ''his own child'' and tried to feed him to the Gods as a sacrifice (Demeter actually ate a piece by accident).
*** Sisyphus was slain by Zeus for telling a river-god where Zeus had taken his daughter (though Zeus wasn't too happy to begin with, given he had a habit of murdering travellers and guests ForTheEvulz). In the underworld, he succeeded in outwitting and imprisoning Thanatos, which inflicted DeathTakesAHoliday on entire world. And then, when he did die, he asked his wife to leave him unburied, so that Hades was forced to let him out "to haunt her", which he used as an excuse to try and take the throne again, forcing Hermes to catch him and drag him back to the Underworld, where he received his punishment for being such a smartass.

** On the other hand, all three had it coming: Tantalus butchered and cooked ''his own child'' and tried to feed him to the Gods as a sacrifice (Demeter actually ate a piece by accident).
** YMMV on Sisyphus - in the version I heard, all he did was tell a local river-god that Zeus was off seducing/raping said river-god's daughter.
*** That's what he got killed for. What he got the rock duty for was all the stuff he did to avoid death ( Imprisoning Thanatos, which inflicted DeathTakesAHoliday on entire world. And then, when he did die, asking his wife to leave him unburied, so that Hades lets him out "to haunt her")

*** That's what he got killed for. What he got the rock duty for was all the stuff he did to avoid death (Like, imprisoning Thanatos, which inflicted DeathTakesHoliday on entire world. )

* Prometheus' fate of being chained to a rock and having an eagle tearing out his liver each day. He endured it for hundreds of years before being released.
** Similarly the fate immortal Cheiron faced before he sold his immortality: living forever, with the maddening poison of the Hydra eternally burning through his veins.

** Similarly the fate immortal Chiron faced before he sold his invisibility: living forever, with the poison of the Hydra eternally burning through his veins.

** A man who chopped down one of Demeter's trees was infected with eternal hunger.
* The few tales of cannibalism (such as Tantalus).