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The Dragon - Fear and Power (Hardcover)
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The Dragon - Fear and Power (Hardcover)
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Dragons are a global phenomenon, one that has troubled mankind for
thousands of years. From the fire-breathing beasts of North
European myth and legend to the Book of Revelation's Great Red
Dragon of Hell, from those supernatural agencies of imperial
authority in ancient China to those dragon-women posing a threat to
male authority, dragons have a wide variety of forms and meanings.
But there is one thing they all have in common: our fear of their
formidable power and, as a consequence, our need to overcome them,
to appease them or in some way to assume their power as our own.
How can this be explained? Is it our need to impose order on chaos
in the person of a dragon-slaying hero? Is it our terror of Nature
unleashed in its most destructive form? Or is the dragon nothing
less than an expression of that greatest and most disturbing
mystery of all - our mortality? Martin Arnold traces the history of
ideas about dragons, from the earliest of times to Game of Thrones,
and asks what exactly it might be in our imaginations that appears
to have necessitated such a creature.
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