Drakon

Drakon
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 492
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ISBN-10 : 9780199557325
ISBN-13 : 0199557322
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Book Synopsis Drakon by : Daniel Ogden

Download or read book Drakon written by Daniel Ogden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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