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Dragons, serpents and slayers in the classical and early Christian worlds : a sourcebook
- Title
- Dragons, serpents and slayers in the classical and early Christian worlds : a sourcebook / Daniel Ogden.
- Author
- Ogden, Daniel.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 319 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 13-841
- ISBN
- 9780199925117
- 0199925119
- 9780199925094
- 0199925097
- LCCN
- 2012032468
- OCLC
- 806291872
- Author
- Ogden, Daniel.
- Title
- Dragons, serpents and slayers in the classical and early Christian worlds : a sourcebook / Daniel Ogden.
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-302) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 13-841