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Drakon - Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Hardcover)
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Drakon - Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Hardcover)
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Drakon: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds
is the first substantial survey to be focally devoted to the
'dragon' or the supernatural serpent, the drakon or draco, in Greek
and Roman myth and religion. Almost every major myth cycle of the
Greek and Roman worlds featured a dragon-fight at its heart,
including the sagas of Heracles, Jason, Perseus, Cadmus, and
Odysseus. Asclepius, the single most beloved and influential of the
pagan gods from the late Classical period until Late Antiquity, was
often manifest as a giant serpent and even in his humanoid aspect
carried a serpent on his staff. Detailed and authoritative, but
lucidly presented, this volume incorporates analyses of all of
antiquity's major dragon-slaying myths, and offers comprehensive
accounts of the rich sources, literary and iconographic. Ogden also
explores matters of cult and the initially paradoxical association
of dragons and serpents with the most benign of deities, not only
those of health and healing, like Asclepius and Hygieia, but also
those of wealth and good luck, such as Zeus Meilichios and Agathos
Daimon. The concluding chapter considers the roles of both pagan
dragon-slaying narratives and pagan serpent cults in shaping the
beginnings of the tradition of the saintly dragon- and
serpent-slaying tales we cherish still, the tradition that
culminates in our own stories of Saints George and Patrick.
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