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Griffin

The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: gryps or grypus; Late and Medieval Latin: gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.

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Folklore
Greece, Ancient Iran, Armenia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Mesopotamia
Grouping
Mythical creature
Other name(s)
Axex, Opinici, Keythong
Similar entities
Akhekh, Hippogriff, Sphinx, Simurgh

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Griffin

Nodes383
Edges382
Triples447
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005222
Components1

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Griffin

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related to Greece · 36
Griffin → Aegean, Aristeas, Asia, Barberini, BC, Bronze Age Palace, Crete, Detractors, Early Greek, East, Etruscan, Greece, Greek, Greeks, Griffin-type, It, Knossos, Late Bronze Age, Maxwell-Hyslop, Minoan
related to Possible influence by dinosaurs · 33
Griffin → AD, Adrienne Mayor, Aelian, Altai, Aristeas, Asia, BC, Central Asian, China, Discounting, Eastern, Gobi, Gold, Greco-Roman, Greece, Greek, Greeks, Herodotus, Issedon Scythica, Issedon Serica
related to Popular fiction · 22
Griffin → Dragons, Dungeons, Examples, Friendship, Giant Killer, Griffins, Griffon, Harry Potter, Heroes, Jack, Magic, Might, My Little Pony, Ragnarok Online, Springing Lark, The Battle, The Griffin, The Singing, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Warcraft
related to In architecture · 19
Griffin → AD, Al-Andaluz, Cathedral Museum, Duomo, Forum, From, In, Islamic, Islamic Spain, It, Italy, Middle Ages, Museo, Opera, Pisa, Pisa Cathedral, Rome, The Pisa Griffin, Trajan
related to Grecian accounts of the gryphon · 17
Griffin → Aeschylus, Altai, Although Aristeas's, Arimaspi, Aristeas, Armaspi's, BC, Central Asia, Greek, Herodotus, Issedones, Local, Mongolia, NW China, Pluto, Proconnesus, The
related to Houses and cities using the device · 16
Griffin → Cross, Farther Pomerania, George, German, Hither Pommerania, It, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Middle Ages, Poland, Pomerania, Renaissance, St, The, Vorpommern, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, When Genoa
related to overview · 16
Griffin → Aelian, Aeschylus, Arimaspians, Aristeas, BC, Because, Central Asia, Even, Greek, Herodotus, In, Middle Ages, Roman, Since, The, Zeus
related to School emblems and mascots · 16
Griffin → Canisius College, Griffins, Gryphon, Guelph, Oxford, Oxford Union Society, Raffles Institution, Reed College, Sarah Lawrence College, Sir Thomas Pope, The, The Gryphon, Three, Trinity College, University, VU University Amsterdam
related to In fiction · 14
Griffin → Beatrice, Comedy, Dante, Earthly Paradise, Griffins, Hell, Immediately, In Dante Alighieri's Divine, Paradise, Persian, Purgatorio, Purgatory, Rumi, Virgil's
related to In film and television · 14
Griffin → Family Guy, Friendship, Griffins, Magic, My Little Pony, Narnia, Prince Caspian, Quest, The Chronicles, The Lion, Wardrobe, Witch, World, Yin Yang Yo

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griffins also greek lion ancient bc wings creature may one century eagle gold bronze head art persian heraldry creatures eggs

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GriffinFolkloreGreece, Ancient Iran, Armenia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Mesopotamia1.00infobox
GriffinGroupingMythical creature1.00infobox
GriffinOther name(s)Axex, Opinici, Keythong1.00infobox
GriffinSimilar entitiesAkhekh, Hippogriff, Sphinx, Simurgh1.00infobox
Griffinis alarge bronze sculpture that has been in Pisa in Italy since the Middle Ages0.90text
Griffinis aofficial mascot of Chestnut Hill College and Gwynedd Mercy University0.90text
Griffinis asame as the mythical bird Homa0.90text
the Forum of Trajaninstance ofat sites0.80text
griffins featured prominently in the architectural decorationinstance ofat sites0.80text
we have amongst usinstance ofand more great and stronger than an hundred eagles0.80text
Protoceratopsinstance ofspeculates that the way the Greeks imagined griffins from the seventh century BC onwards may have been influenced in part by the fossilized remains of beaked dinosaurs0.80text
Psittacosaurus that ancient Scythianinstance ofspeculates that the way the Greeks imagined griffins from the seventh century BC onwards may have been influenced in part by the fossilized remains of beaked dinosaurs0.80text

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