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2. Dragons in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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   The word dragon derives from the Greek δράκων (drakōn) and its Latin cognate draco.Ancient Greeks applied the term to large, constricting snakes. [2] The Greek drakōn was far more associated with poisonous spit or breath than the modern Western dragon, though fiery breath is still attested in a few myths.

3. Jade Emperor - Wikipedia

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   The Jade Emperor ordered Mountain God to trap the four dragons. However, from each mountain that trapped a dragon there sprang a new river. From Yellow Dragon came the Yellow River, from Long Dragon the Yangtze River, from Black Dragon the Amur River, and from Pearl Dragon the Pearl River. The rivers thereafter flowed from west to east and ...

4. List of mythology books and sources - Wikipedia

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   The Greek Myths by Robert Graves (1955) Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece by Gustav Schwab (1837) Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece by W. H. D. Rouse (1934) Bulfinch's Mythology (originally published as three volumes) by Thomas Bulfinch (1855) Mythology by Edith Hamilton (1942) Myths of the Ancient Greeks by Richard P. Martin (2003)

5. Cleostratus (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   In Greek mythology, Cleostratus (Ancient Greek: Κλεόστρατος, romanized: Kleóstratos, lit. 'renowned army') is a teenage boy from Thespiae, a town in Boeotia, who is chosen to be offered to a dragon in a yearly sacrifice to the monster, until he is saved by his lover Menestratus.

6. Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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   Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.

7. Python (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   A 1581 engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book I. In Greek mythology, Python (Greek: Πύθων; gen. Πύθωνος) was the serpent, sometimes represented as a medieval-style dragon, living at the center of the Earth, believed by the ancient Greeks to be at Delphi.

8. Cadmus - Wikipedia

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   In Greek mythology, Cadmus (/ ˈ k æ d m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Κάδμος, romanized: Kádmos) was the legendary Phoenician founder of Boeotian Thebes. [1] He was, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. [2]

9. Ladon (mythology) - Wikipedia

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   The dragon (Ladon) image coiled around the tree, originally adopted by the Hellenes from Near Eastern and Minoan sources [citation needed], is familiar from surviving Greek vase-painting. In the 2nd century CE, Pausanias saw among the treasuries at Olympia an archaic cult image in cedar-wood of Heracles and the apple-tree of the Hesperides with ...