sentences:  Provided with a human face and a scaly tail, as in Dante's vision of Geryon in "Inferno" xvii.7–17, 25–27, hybrid monsters, more akin to the Manticore of Pliny's Natural History (viii.90), provided iconic representations of hypocrisy and fraud well into the seventeenth century, through an emblematic representation in Cesare Ripa's "Iconologia".The myths of the Chimera may be found in the "Bibliotheca" of Pseudo-Apollodorus (book 1), the "Iliad" (book 16) by Homer, the "Fabulae" 57 and 151 by Hyginus, the "Metamorphoses" (book VI 339 by Ovid; IX 648), and the "Theogony" 319ff by Hesiod.Virgil, in the "Aeneid" (book 5) employs "Chimaera" for the name of a gigantic ship of Gyas in the ship-race, with possible allegorical significance in contemporary Roman politics.