Dragons, serpents and slayers in the classical and early Christian worlds : a sourcebook / Daniel Ogden.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ogden, Daniel
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Dragons > Folklore.
Dragons > Religious aspects.
Dragons in the Bible.
Mythology, Classical.
Genre:
Folklore.
Physical Description:xxiii, 319 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The classical dragon: The genealogy of the great dragons
  • Typhon, slain by Zeus
  • Python, slain by Apollo
  • Heracles' dragons (I): baby Heracles and the dragon-pair sent by Hera
  • Heracles' dragons (II): the hydra
  • Heracles' dragons (III): Ladon, the dragon of the Hesperides
  • Heracles' dragons (IV): Cerberus, the hound of Hades
  • The chimaera, slain by Bellerophon
  • Medusa, slain by Perseus
  • Lamia, slain by Eurybatus and others
  • The dragon of Ares, slain by Cadmus
  • The dragon of Nemea, slain by the Seven against Thebes
  • The dragon of Colchis, slain or put to sleep by Jason and Medea
  • The dragon-pair sent against Laocoon and his sons
  • The dragon of the river Bagrada, slain by Regulus and his army
  • Some unique dragon-slaying and dragon-averting narratives in later Greek sources
  • The sea-monster of Troy, slain by Heracles
  • The sea-serpent of Ethiopia, slain by Perseus
  • Scylla, slain by Heracles and encountered by Odysseus
  • The Christian dragon: The serpents of the Bible and its Apocrypha
  • The dragons of the early hagiographical tradition
  • St Philip, the echidna and the ophianoi
  • St Silvester and the dragon of Rome
  • Saintly tales originating between the fourth and sixth centuries AD
  • Saintly tales of the central medieval period
  • St Patrick and St George
  • Appendix A: World-foundational dragon-slaying tales from the ancient Near East and India
  • Appendix B: Germanic dragon fights of the eighth to thirteenth centuries AD
  • Appendix C: A selection of dragon- and serpent-slaying tales of folkloric Interest.