Drakon - Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Zusatztext Professor Daniel Ogden's Drakon is a work of awesome scope and thoroughness, and is also remarkably lively and entertaining to read. ... All these aspects, and many others, are discussed in this fascinating book, a major contribution to the history of Classical religion. Informationen zum Autor Daniel Ogden is currently Professor of Ancient History at the University of Exeter, and Research Fellow at the University of South Africa. He has published widely on ancient Greek subjects, including myth, religion and magic, traditional narratives, reproduction and sexuality, and Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic dynasties. Klappentext This volume explores the dragon or the supernatural serpent in Graeco-Roman myth and religion. It incorporates analyses, with comprehensive accounts of the rich literary and iconographic sources, for the principal dragons of myth, and discusses matters of cult and the paradoxical association of dragons and serpents with the most benign of deities. Zusammenfassung This volume explores the dragon or the supernatural serpent in Graeco-Roman myth and religion. It incorporates analyses, with comprehensive accounts of the rich literary and iconographic sources, for the principal dragons of myth, and discusses matters of cult and the paradoxical association of dragons and serpents with the most benign of deities.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Ogden, Daniel (Professor of Ancient History Ogden, Ogden Daniel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9780199557325
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955732-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Ancient, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Roman religion and mythology, Roman religion & mythology