The Kiss of the Enchantress, Isobel Lilian Gloag,1890.

LAMIA was a child-devouring sea-monster or night-haunting daemon. She was a daughter of Poseidon and mother of the monsters Skylla (Scylla) and Akheilos (Acheilus, the Shark).

Lamia was originally a Libyan queen loved by Zeus. When his jealous wife Hera learned of their affair she stole away Lamia's children and the woman, driven mad with grief, tore out her own eyes. Zeus then transformed her into a monster allowing her to exact revenge by devouring the children of others.

Lamia was often described as a bogeyman--a night-haunting daemon which preyed on children. She was sometimes pluralised into host of ghostly, vampiric Lamiai (Lamiae).

Lamia was no doubt first envisaged, however, as a sea-monster for she was a daughter of Poseidon and her name is simply the ancient Greek word for a large, dangerous lone-shark. She was probably identified with the sea-goddess Ceto for both are described as the mother of the monstrous Skylla. Her other child, Akheilos "the lipless one", was transformed into a small shark by Aphrodite.Theoi Greek Mythology.

In this activity, after discusings about the simbolysm of the Lamia, you are going to collaborativelly create a poster with canva for the Female Monster Museum from artworks.

The poster shall include:

-The name of the monster.

-The title of the artwork or artworks that appear on the poster.

-The name of the authors of the artworks that appear on the poster.

-Some written and oral annotations in English explaining the symbolism of the female monster.

-The number of the transnational group: 10.

-The logo of the project and the European Union.

-To create the poster in a collaborative way, we are going to use the tool: canva.

-In each poster you could create more tha one page.

-To enter canva you have just to copy the link corresponding to your international group.

Poster - team 10