Chimera (mythology) repertory of the Greek vase-painters. The Chimera first appears at an early stage in the repertory of the proto-Corinthian pottery-painters, providing some of the earliest identifiable mythological scenes that may be recognized in Greek art. The Corinthian type is fixed, after some early hesitation, in the 670s BC; the variations in the pictorial representations suggests multiple origins to Marilyn Low Schmitt. The fascination with the monstrous devolved by the end of the seventh century into a decorative Chimera-motif in Corinth, while the motif of Bellerophon on Pegasus took on a separate existence alone. A separate Attic tradition, where the goats
Chimera (Dungeons & Dragons) tear with lion fangs, and with a dragon's head that can bite or breathe fire. The chimera appears in the first edition "Monster Manual" (1977), where it is described as a three-headed creature that can bite with its lion head, gore with its goat head, and breathe fire with its dragon head. A relative of both the chimera and the gorgon, the gorgimera first appeared in the module "The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth" (1982). The gorgimera next appeared in "Monster Manual II" (1983). The chimera is further detailed in "Dragon" #94 (February 1985), in "The Ecology of the Chimera," by