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Dragons in Greek mythology
Dragons play a great role in Greek mythology.〔 Ingersoll,Ernest, et al., (2013). ''The Illustrated Book of Dragons and Dragon Lore''. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN B00D959PJ0〕 Homer describes the dragons with wings and legs.
==Ladon==
(詳細はHesperides and guarded the golden apples. Ladon was also said to have as many as one hundred heads. He was overcome and possibly slain by Heracles. After a few years, the Argonauts passed by the same spot, on their chthonic return journey from Colchis at the opposite end of the world, and heard the lament of "shining" Aigle, one of the Hesperides, and viewed the still-twitching Ladon (''Argonautica'', book iv). The creature is associated with the constellation Draco.
Ladon was given several parentages, each of which placed him at an archaic level in Greek myth: the offspring of "Ceto, joined in love with Phorcys" (Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 333) or of Typhon, who was himself serpent-like from the waist down, and Echidna (''Bibliotheke'' 2.113; Hyginus, Preface to ''Fabulae'') or of Gaia herself, or in her Olympian manifestation, Hera: "The Dragon which guarded the golden apples was the brother of the Nemean lion" asserted Ptolemy Hephaestion (recorded in his New History V, lost but epitomized in Photius, ''Myriobiblion'' 190).
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