Sybaris or Lamia of Mount Cirphis, Greece, was a legendary cave-dwelling giant beast that devoured both livestock and humans.
Though precise physical description is given in the primary source, it has been hypothesized by modern commentators that she must have been a dragon or an anguiped.
According to the Greek myth, recorded by Antoninus Liberalis, Sybaris or Lamia was a giant beast (Greek: θηρίον μέγα και υπερφυές[1]) that dwelled on Mount Cirphis and terrorized the countryside of Krisa, situated a little southwest of Delphi (although the Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo suggests that Krisa was the ancient name for Delphi[2]), devouring livestock and people.
The young and handsome Alcyoneus, son of Diomos and Meganeira, was selected to be the victim, but the young hero Eurybatus (Eurybarus), son of Euphemos and a descendant of the river god Axios, and who by divine inspiration was passing through the region, was overcome with love for Alcyoneus and became determined to save him.
[3] Although the primary text only refers to the Lamia-Sybaris as a giant beast,[1] and gives no particulars on her physical description regarding any serpentine features,[4] modern commentators have given circumstantial evidence suggesting she was a dragoness, due to paralleling stories of the male dragon Python, that also despoiled the Delphi region.