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Dragon

Beings · Myth & story · Symbols

A great serpent-like being of myth and later emblem. Not python as the Delphic snake animal alone, and not every wyrm name.

Hellenic religion

  • Dragon appears in Hellenic religion.

    Hesiod’s Theogony and related Hellenic speech seat dragon-beings among guardians and brood of monsters (as in later reception of Theogony’s serpent brood). A named Hellenic dragon as myth being, not python as the Delphic animal alone and not dragon-slayer as the hero role.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

Roman religion

  • Dragon is historically related to Python.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses seats Apollo’s fight with Python among dragon-serpent speech in Roman poetic reception. Dragon as the great serpent being historically related to the named Python, not identity and not every wyrm.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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