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The Serpent Column : a cultural biography /

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"The Serpent Column, a bronze sculpture that has stood in Delphi and Constantinople, today Istanbul, is a Greek representation of the Near Eastern primordial combat myth: it is Typhon, a dragon defeated by Zeus, and also Python slain by Apollo. The column was created after the Battle of Plataia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephenson, Paul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Series:Onassis series in Hellenic culture.
Subjects:
Serpent Column (Istanbul, Turkey)
Bronze sculpture > Turkey > Istanbul.
Istanbul (Turkey) > Antiquities.
Delphi (Extinct city) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Istanbul (Turkey) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Istanbul (Turkey) > Social life and customs.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
ART > History > Ancient & Classical.

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Call Number: DR739.S47 S74 2016
 
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