Campe
demonic underworld Greek single tradition · 3
Campe was a female monster in Greek mythology who served as the guard of Tartarus. She imprisoned the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires on behalf of Uranus. Zeus killed her to free her prisoners, who then helped him defeat Cronus in the Titanomachy.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Part of Greek mythological tradition, associated with the Titanomachy narrative.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Hecatoncheires, Ceto, Delphyne, drakaina, Sybaris, Metis, Hundred-Handers, Typhon, Scylla, Medusa, Lamia, Python, Cyclops, Gaia, Hades, Cronus, Poseidon
- serves
- Uranus
- enemy of
- Zeus
- syncretized with
- Echidna
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“So he slew their jailoress Campe, and loosed their bonds... highheaded Campe ... for all the many crooked shapes of her whole body. A thousand crawlers from her viperish feet, spitting poison afar, were fanning Enyo to a flame”
#5957 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Examples of the drakaina included Campe, Delphyne, Echidna and Sybaris. Zeus slew Delphyne and Campe”
#6101 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“he releases the Cyclopes and Hundred-Handers from Tartarus, first slaying their warder, Campe.”
#45254 · extracted by google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free