Sentence:  But how, then, can the <WSD>Typhonic</WSD>, even as a question, be introduced here precisely as a response to the story of Boreas? How can the memory of the most terrible monster of all time, still evident in the belching of Mount Aetna, a monster of the earth who sought violently to overthrow Zeus and his rule of the heavens, be related to the good son-in-law of Athens? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or relating to Typhon or, by "interpretatio graeca", his Egyptian equivalent Set.