Dragons, serpents and slayers in the classical and early Christian worlds : a sourcebook / Daniel Ogden.
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Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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Physical Description: | xxiii, 319 pages : illustrations. |
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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.